Re: Old problem charset-8859-? or UTF-8 ...

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

You might check the archives for prior discussion concerning
character set/encoding requirements.

In short, OpenLDAP 1.x implements LDAPv2 and expects directory
strings to be sequences of T.61 characters (UTF-8 is used in
LDAPv3).  Though the SDK does provide some string translation
capabilities, one should be careful as you need knowledge of
schema to properly apply charset translations.

Some folks just to ignore the T.61 requirement.  It generally
works if all your applications use these same 8-bit encoding
(as long as it's compatible with US-ASCII)...  but it's not
recommended.

Kurt