Support for swedish characters

[Mikael Grehn <mikael@envilogg.se>]

Hello,
I  discovered that openLdap 2.1.22 refuses to perform operations on 
entries with DN containg swedish characters åäöÅÄÖé,è,È,É. This probably 
goes for all attributetypes and values aswell. It is absolutely 
necessary to be able to use swedish characters in our LDAP support.

I checked the list archives and some questions concerning this matter 
could be found, but no configuration-wise answers...only recommendations 
to use perl-skript on ldif files to convert foreign characters to UTF8 
BEFORE using openldap.
This is not possible for our support.

Can openLdap 2.1.22 be configured to accept additional characters?

If not, is it safe to remove the controlfunctions in UTF8.c or getDn.c
for example:
   cl = LDAP_UTF8_CHARLEN2( p, cl ); // (p is char to control, cl is 
previous result value)
replaced by
   cl=1;
to force openldap to accept these characers?
( It is probably needed to do additional changes!)

Other options?

Greatful for any help and/or hints!

Sincerely

--
Mikael Grehn
M.Sc.
Systems Engineer
Envilogg Datateknik AB