can't create objects with special national characters

[Tobias]

Hello all-

when I try to create up update objects with strings that include special
national character like � or � (dunno how it will look on your screen now),
I receive errors like constrainment violation etc.

I am running perl scripts from an RedHat against an Novell eDirectory 85
directory.

I would really appreciate any help to solve this.

Tobias

here is some example code
$conn2 = new Mozilla::LDAP::Conn($ld);

my $entry = $conn2->search($$ld{base}, $$ld{scope}, "cn=$racf");

$conn2->printError() if $conn2->getErrorCode();

print $location;

$entry->setValue("description", "description�");   <---- �: here is the
national character!

$conn2->printError() if $conn2->getErrorCode();

$conn2->update($entry);

$conn2->printError() if $conn2->getErrorCode();

$conn2->close if $conn2;