>>> Ede Wolf <lis...@nebelschwaden.de> schrieb am 21.02.2023 um 16:10 in >>> Nachricht <5fed02ec-1e12-5264-305f-a3f69a335...@nebelschwaden.de>:
>> The same way you would enter Unicode in any other application. This is not > an LDAP- or LDIF-specific question. >> >> 1) use a terminal and locale that support UTF-8. >> 2) use whatever tools your OS provides for entering Unicode characters. > Probably something named "Unicode character map" or similar. >> > > Thanks again. But my question regards the values for attributes. > > Having a ldif file, for the dn I can enter: > dn: cn=A \F0\9F\99\82 Test,dc=example,dc=com It seems the backslash notation is not actually defined for LDIF. RFC 2849 (LDAP Data Interchange Format) says: SAFE-STRING = [SAFE-INIT-CHAR *SAFE-CHAR] SAFE-CHAR = %x01-09 / %x0B-0C / %x0E-7F SAFE-INIT-CHAR = %x01-09 / %x0B-0C / %x0E-1F / %x21-39 / %x3B / %x3D-7F dn-spec = "dn:" (FILL distinguishedName / ":" FILL base64-distinguishedName) distinguishedName = SAFE-STRING rdn = SAFE-STRING base64-distinguishedName = BASE64-UTF8-STRING base64-rdn = BASE64-UTF8-STRING UTF8-STRING = *UTF8-CHAR BASE64-CHAR = %x2B / %x2F / %x30-39 / %x3D / %x41-5A / %x61-7A BASE64-UTF8-STRING = BASE64-STRING BASE64-STRING = [*(BASE64-CHAR)] > > That would literally give me the utf8 smiley icon as part of my dn - > provided my font feratures that, of course. > So I can use the hex encoding representation to enter any UTF-8 character. > > I can even search for that icon, using that hex encoding as search base > or part of the search filter. > > However, for a value, I cannot do this, and my question is, is there a > way at all? > This has nothing to do with my console. > > For a directorystring attribute (it value), is there any way of entering > code points straight into my ldif - be it U+0000 or hex notation - and > having the server interpret them, as it works for the dn? > > Not copy+paste from the command line, but, again, as encodigs where the > ldap server knows, these are to be interpreted. As it does for the dn. > > Something like: > cn: A \F0\9F\99\82 Test > > Just with a syntax that works. If that it possible at all. > > Thanks > > Ede
