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Re: International chars w/ OpenLDAP+Mail clients
Marc Andre Selig wrote:
>
> I am running into problems with international charsets while
> trying to implement an OpenLDAP directory
Which version of OpenLDAP are you using? 1.2.x implements LDAPv2 and
2.0.x implements LDAPv3 which is a notable difference for some
clients when handling NON-ASCII charsets/encodings (e.g. Outlook).
> OpenLDAP stores data in UTF-8 format.
This is misleading. See mailing list archive for a lot of discussion
about this topic.
> Netscape 4.75 can display these, but when I want to see more
> information, the request is sent back in Latin1 (URL-encoded),
This is a Netscape bug since 4.5x when constructing the LDAP URL. I
reported it to Netscape through several channels but no change. :-(
You can work around this problem with doing hex-escaping of the
UTF-8 chars in DNs as described in RFC2253. You might experience
other problems when doing so.
> What is the
> correct procedure to maintain an OpenLDAP database containing
> international characters, which must be accessible in searches?
Go with UTF-8 and use the right client software.
Ciao, Michael.