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Re: Special characters in distinguished name

chris_news@arcor.de wrote:
> are special characters, especially German umlauts, acceptable in the
> distinguished name?

If the attribute type used to form the DN component is of DirectoryString
syntax there's no problem. Note that DirectoryString means UTF-8 encoded
Unicode chars.

> I've accidentally discovered that CPAN's Net::LDAP::Entry module doesn't
> support them (in the distinguished name). Other attributes are escaped
> correctly.

What exactly leads you to this conclusion?

Ciao, Michael.

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