Re: Special character

[Donn Cave <donn@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday, December 23, 2004, at 01:43 PM, Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> Gustavo Rios <vieira.rios@gmail.com> writes:
> > In my native language, we have special requirements related to
> > accents. How my i politely "suggest" slapadd to accept a ldif like
> > this:
> >
> > dn: dc=fesv,dc=br
> > objectClass: dcObject
> > objectClass: organization
> > dc: fesv
> > o: Faculdade Estácio de Sá / Vitória
> > description: FESV Directory
...
> convert your ldif file to UTF-8,iconv(1) might be of help.

That's nice, I don't think I ever noticed iconv before.

For slapadd from LDIF, seems to me it may also be necessary to
BASE64 encode the value, as in

   o:: RmFjdWxkYWRlIEVzdMOhY2lvIGRlIFPDoSAvIFZpdMOzcmlh

(note extra colon.)  Applications will get the decoded value -
so they don't need to understand BASE64, only UTF-8.

	Donn Cave, donn@u.washington.edu