Re: LDAP and Unicode

Sourav,

LDAP v3 requires that all text data be in UTF-8.  What language the data is in
is a separate matter, and can be indicated with a lang- option on the attribute.

Depending on which version of the Netscape Directory Server (now the iPlanet
Directory Server from Sun), the server might be supporting LDAP v2 or LDAP v3. 
You can put UTF-8 data into an LDAP v2 directory, but the tools may not
necessarily process it, nor understand lang- options.

Otherwise, I don't think there's any way to dictate the overall charset of a
directory, in contrast to a data base.

Andrea

souravm wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Does LDAP servers can be configured in some way so that the data is always stored in UTF-8 ? I've seen Netscapes' directory server. There one can specify the language. I'm not sure how conversion of chracter encoding is taken care of in that case.
> 
> Regards,
> Sourav

Received on Thursday, 28 February 2002 15:22:54 UTC