Re: Problems with accentuated characters

[Andreas <andreas@conectiva.com.br>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:10:52PM +0200, Bruno Biedermann wrote:
> I'm from France and i've got to migrate users from /etc/passwd. The 
> gecos field is filled with the person's real name (i.e : Gabriel 
> Péri)... The migrate_passwd works well and outputs a ldif file.
> When I try to ldapadd this ldif file I've got an error telling me that 
> there are invalid characters (é).

I filed a bugreport at Padl's bugzilla about this some time ago:
http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=137

> I tried to encode the gecos field in mime64 to add it as binary data 
> into openldap but i've got this error now :

No, you have to convert it to UTF-8, then base64, and then use the
openldap tools to add it (slapadd or ldapadd).

> Has anyone succeeded in entering diacritics into ldap?? I'd like to know 
> how...

Yes, but it's not easy because the tools themselves do not perform the
convertion to UTF-8.