On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 01:41:24PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I encounter problems when modifying some entries with attributes containing > special chars (such as å, ø...). The error returned by the LDAP server is > "invalid syntax". > > I have read some documentation about this. OpenLDAP can accept special > chars, provided values are base64-encoded, when we use the tools that come > with the application (ldapadd, ldapmodify, etc.). This is true for input in LDIF format. > But how to do this from PHP functions? I tried to base64_encode the > values, > it naturally didn't do the trick (those values were considered as normal, > and thus were not decoded - this polutes my directory.) Same goes for > urlencoding. You have to use UTF-8 encoding. Cheers, Enrik -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]