Re: Using non-English characters in names with Outlook and OpenLDAP

["Villy Kruse" <vek@pharmapartners.nl>]

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From: "Marco Cunha" <marco.cunha@tecinf.pt>
To: <openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:57 PM
Subject: Using non-English characters in names with Outlook and OpenLDAP


> Hi everyone! I've been using openldap to provide my company with an address book for Outlook. It works fine except for one tinny thing :)
> 
> When I'm using LDAP Browser (a java app by Jarek Gawor available at http://www.iit.edu/~gawojar/ldap) characters like "ã" and "ê" work fine. However when I look at them with Outlook it all seems garbled.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea on how I should insert the characters into OpenLDAP so that they display fine in Outlook ?
> 




Just tried to insert them as iso-8859-1 characters and it displays as entered
when displaying the entry using OE5.   However this is in violation of the
standard, which requires you to use T.61 characters for the old standard
and UTF-8 for the new standard.



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Villy