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
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
