Re: Accented characters in LDAP directory

[Alejandra Moreno <alejandra.moreno@atrete.ch>]

Hi!

In order to be able to store accented characters in OpenLdap you need to
utf8 encode them. In Linux you can use this command:

iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 filename.ldif

It is really quick, because at first I used some perl scripts but they
were too slow. Nevertheless I have these scripts if you are
interested.

Regards,
Alejandra


At 18:44 22.02.2002 +0100, you wrote:
> I
> converted a large database of contacts to the LDIF format in order to
> import them into the OpenLDAP server. Unfortunately many contact names
> and addresses have accented characters in them. These records get refused
> when I try to import them with ldapadd.
>  
> Is there a way around this? I can't imagine
> that LDAP does not allow users to write peoples names
> correctly.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Frank

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