Hello Michael, Von: Michael Ströder <mich...@stroeder.com> > chris_n...@arcor.de wrote: > > are special characters, especially German umlauts, acceptable in the > > distinguished name? > > If the attribute type used to form the DN component is of DirectoryString > syntax there's no problem. Note that DirectoryString means UTF-8 encoded > Unicode chars.
yes. The DN is composed of the common name and domain components. The umlauts are part of the common name. > > I've accidentally discovered that CPAN's Net::LDAP::Entry module doesn't > > support them (in the distinguished name). Other attributes are escaped > > correctly. > > What exactly leads you to this conclusion? I setup the DN with $entry->dn($dn); and generated with write_entry an LDIF-file. The DN wasn't base 64 encoded. I could encode it myself, but then the second colon is still missing. So I probably won't use this library. - Chris