Re: Problems with accentuated characters

[Bruno Biedermann <biedermann@lyon.cemagref.fr>]

Jon Roberts wrote:

> Andreas wrote:
>
> > 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 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).
>
>
> Actually, I've added LDIFs with UTF-8 encoded without encoding 
> anything to base64. An example LDIF is at:
>
> http://www.mentata.com/news/11Jul03.htm
>
> Jon Roberts
> www.mentata.com
Hello,

I saw your ldif file and I was wondering if the "lang-sv" you use was a 
standard directive understood by all versions of openldap or if  i had 
to do something to activate this feature.

Thanks a lot for your answers list!!