Hi Beate
> I have to import database datas with mutated vowels (Umlauten ä,ö,ü)
> into the Netscape Directory Server 4.1.
>
> I converted first in Base64 and then UTF8-Format but the
> Directory Server doesnt show the word.
> e. g. when I have got the word "Geschäft" it shows "Gesch",
> cause it can't interpret my LDIF-Base64-(UTF8)-Format.
> When I export the word "Geschäft" in LDIF-format, it uses Base64 too,
> but by the first mutated vowel it writes other charachters than my
> convert-program does.
You need to decode the base64, convert from Latin1 to UTF8 and recode in
base64 again. I've once written a little perl scirpt to do this (see
attachement)
> For example: Müller
The correct value would be "TcO8bGxlcg==". (with O as in October)
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