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Re: Special Characters in sn, cn, and gecos attributes

To: scott.walker@magma.ca
Subject: Re: Special Characters in sn, cn, and gecos attributes
From: Jon Roberts <man@mentata.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:54:43 -0500
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <40900303.7030804@magma.ca>
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Scott Walker wrote:

Are special characters(like letters with accents) able to
be imported in to the sn, cn, and gecos fields.  This is
under the person and inetOrgPerson ObjectClasses.  Just
wondering what values these containers can hold.

AFAIK, all of these "name" attributes follow UTF-8 syntax. See an example unicoded update LDIF (populating a different attribute) at:

http://www.mentata.com/news/jesus/swedish_gospel.ldif

Jon Roberts
www.mentata.com

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