Re: Rejected NLS in DN

[Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Hi,

Kjell-Einar Ofstad <kjell-einar.ofstad@aqilon.com> writes:

> Hi. 
>
> I'm running openLDAP 2.1.22 (pre-compiled) on Linux (SuSE 9.0).
>
> I'm trying to insert an entry with Norwegian national characters in the
> DN. This is rejected by the server. I thought national languages were
> supported through UTF-8. Below is the sys-message from the server:
> --------------
> Apr 12 20:45:43 shamash slapadd: bdb_initialize: Sleepycat Software: \
> Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (September 23, 2003)
> Apr 12 20:45:43 shamash slapadd: str2entry: entry -1 has invalid DN \
> "cn=Jørgen Åstad,dc=alg,dc=plainjoe,dc=org"
> ----------------
>
> Can I do this or do I have to rewrite the names of employees?

Your are probably not using iso-10646 fonts but latin-1, so convert
your *.ldif file to UTF-8, see man iconv(1).

-Dieter

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