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Re: string types?

At 08:52 AM 6/22/2001, W. L. Estes wrote:
>I have data which may contain more or less any sort of printable
>character: parentheses, ampersands, at-signs, letters, numbers,
>periods etc. What syntax can I use in the attributetype declaration to
>get this data through?

I would recommend you consider the directory string syntax.
This syntax allows any ISO 10646-1 character encoded in
UTF-8.

>Will I need to do anything else (e.g. in the
>ldif file) to convince slapadd/ldapadd to put the data in?

You need to transliterate to UTF-8.

Kurt