At 11:22 AM 9/19/00 +0800, Ravi Mittal wrote: >Hi All, > > Can I have SYNTAX of a ATTRIBUTE TYPE as UTF-16??? You can define attribute types to be of any syntax. However, most applications and servers only implement a few keys syntaxes, such as directory String syntax. A directory string, in LDAPv3, is an UTF-8 encoded ISO 10646-1 string. >Actually I need to store Chinese data into my LDAP database??? Use UTF-8. Kurt