Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:45:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Joerg Pulz <Joerg.Pulz@frm2.tum.de> To: =?UTF-8?B?RXJpayBOw7hyZ2FhcmQ=?= <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I can't spell my own name in UTF-8, base 64 encoded Message-ID: <20060423204132.K52948@hades.admin.frm2> In-Reply-To: <444BC593.9090906@locolomo.org> References: <444BC593.9090906@locolomo.org>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-264289448-1145817942=:52948 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > Hi: > > So, I finally decided to get OpenLDAP set up to serve an address book > independent of where I am and on what computer. The problem is that > unless an attribute value is ascii, values have to be in UTF-8 and > base64 encoded(?), as I could understand from googling. > > But, I can't even spell my own name in that encoding! > > So question is: How do I most easily populate my directory? Is there a > tool that can convert an iso-8859-1 ldif to utf-8+base64 ldif? Will ldap > queries also have to be encoded UTF-8+base64 as well? > > Have I misunderstood the bit about base64, that this is only required > for binary data such as jpeg images? > > All documentation I have found tells how easy it is to get data out in > UTF-8 ldif, but I really need to get the data in there first. Erik, you can convert the LDIF file with the following command iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t UTF-8 <filename> The only thing you need is converters/libiconv from ports. The base64 encoding is done by the OpenLDAP tools itself. Hth. Joerg - -- The beginning is the most important part of the work. -Plato -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFES8tYSPOsGF+KA+MRAs91AKC/4BNM0nIpwbRtWvONkzNbn5EW9wCePUi8 WNlYPWwTJQBPQLB2K+2H7Hw= =KRuH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0-264289448-1145817942=:52948--
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