Re: [LDAP] Using foreign charsets / adding entries base64-encoded

[John Kristian <kristian@netscape.com>]

Andreas Kotes wrote:
> 
> When I add entries containing umlauts the server checks them in fine, and
> ldapsearch gets them fine, too. But when I try to look up the records with
> Netscape I get a "?" for each umlaut, rendering the result unusable.

I guess your data are stored in the LDAP server in the Latin-1 charset.
This is not compatible with Netscape software.  Netscape uses UTF-8,
not Latin-1, in all versions of LDAP.

Converting between Latin-1 and UTF-8 is simple.  I can send you some
example code (in C) to do the conversion, if you like.

> How can I tell the server to use latin1-charset ...

You can't.  At least, not Netscape Directory Server.