Re: ldapadd + Greek Characters -HELP

[Thomas Fritz <Thomas.Fritz@bam.de>]

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 18:25, Stella Korakaki wrote:
> Hi everyone, I have the following problem:
> 
> I wanted to migrate from a microsoft sql database to ldap. In order to 
> create the appropriate ldif,
> I exported the database to csv and I created a perl script which 
> produces me the ldif with all the data.
> 
> when I try to make ldappadd using this ldif, I get the following errors 
> to attributes that I'm going to insert greek values:
> 
> ldap_add: Invalid syntax
>     additional info: cn: value #0 invalid per syntax
> 
> note that above this message is displayed:
> 
> add cn:
>     NOT ASCII (30 bytes)
> 
> As I can guess... there is an error with the greek characters. Is there 
> any way to add my ldif with greek entries in the ldap server?
> 

Directory strings need to be encoded in unicode utf-8. I suggest you to
use the perl module 'Unicode::String' for conversion.

Tom

> Please help me I m newbie with ldap.
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