On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:34:40PM +0900, Isamar Maia wrote: > > After utf8_encode/decode, I recommend reencode with base64. > I had the same problem and solved through this way. But then you are actually storing the string as base64 in the directory. You don't want to do that. As Michael said, you should never do base64 unless you are doing LDIF. Stig