Re: cannot add entries with Umlaut characters

[Erich Titl <erich.titl@think.ch>]

Dieter

At 09:42 05.12.2003 +0100, Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Erich Titl <erich.titl@think.ch> writes:
>
> > Hallvard
> >
> > At 15:56 04.12.2003 +0100, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> >>Erich Titl writes:
> >> > dn: cn=Susanne Bösch,dc=granella-holding,dc=ch
> >>
> >>You must convert all non-ASCII characters to UTF-8.  You don't need to
> >>base64-encode them afterwards, though it doesn't hurt.
> >
> > Thanks for the info. What about 'dn' , can it be treated the same way?
>
> You can convert a full ldif file to UTF-8 just use the tool
> 'iconv'
> iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 -o outfile inputfile.

Thanks a lot, makes life a lot easier, although I already implemented it in 
my conversion script, which is needed as the source for the ldif file comes 
from the ominous Excel sheet

:-(

Erich

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