Re: decoding non-ascii attribute values

[Erik Thiele <erik@thiele-hydraulik.de>]

i added the values into my ldap database using the "GQ" graphical user
interface program.

now i want to read them out. i forgot to say that i am coding in C,
using the standard ldap libraries.

can i - as a quick fix - just take the 2 byte values of the characters
in question an recode them by hand, or do they have different encodings
dependent on something, and i should use a conversion library?

erik

On 06 Jun 2003 10:49:13 -0600
M Butcher <mbutcher@grcomputing.net> wrote:
> Someone else may have a more helpful suggestion, but I've used UTF-8
> encodings in the database to deal with larger character sets. Granted,
> this was through a custom-developed interface I wrote, and I just
> encoded the string before adding it to the directory.
> 
> Matt
> 
> On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 08:36, Erik Thiele wrote:
> > ascii attribute values work fine when doing ldap_get_values.
> > 
> > but german umlauts (üöä ÜÖÄ) and the german sharp s (ß) are two-byte
> > encoded. how can i recode the returned strings to latin1 using a
> > function that returns an error, if it is not recodable (for example
> > because it contains chinese characters) ?
> > 
> > erik

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Erik Thiele