problems using utf8 in ldap calls

[Tobias]

Hello all-

I am writing on some import utility in Perl which has to deal with all kind
of national characters. The national characters are properly displayed on my
ssh console screen. However, there are other characters send to my ldap
server, and it can't convert them. So it seems that perldap has a problem
supporting unicode. I would have to send it via utf8 to my ldap server. Does
someone found a was for using unicode with perldap?

Thanks,

tobias