Re: Characters non-ascii

[Jon Roberts <jon@mentata.com>]

Isabel Falantes wrote:

> Hi everybody!
>
> I need to load a ldif file that contains characters not ascii in the ldap,
> but the command ldapmodify doesn't allow it. How I can do it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -- Isa.
I'm currently investigating this, too. From what I've gathered, you need 
to convert the character data to base64. There are tools and libraries 
available to do this, but I haven't tried any yet. I'll probably start 
with the MIME::Base64 perl module. If anybody knows of some better 
tools, let us know.

Then, when you add the data via ldif, you need to use the double colon 
convention, like:

cn:: IGJlZ2lucyB3aXRoIGEgc3BhY2U=

Hope that helps.

Jon Roberts
www.mentata.com