From: Berbiche Mohcine <berbiche.mohcine@uqam.ca> I have some problem to access to "mailautoreplytext" attribut. I have no problem to access to a value of "mailautoreplytext" attribut with ldapsearch command . The $entry->{mailautoreplytext}[0] return no value. But with $entry->{mailautoreplytext;lang-fr-ca}[0] the answer is right but without accentuated characters. Could you please help.

Setting all current Open/Normal to M4.

Clearing "M" field since Directory product is not used for 5.0 specific project bug metrics and will mess up our queries on milestones.

From Johan Kristian: wrote a document for Directory Server developers, which you might find useful. Any attribute description may have an option that indicates its language/locale. See <draft-ietf-ldapext-lang>. In LDAP v3, characters are represented in UTF-8. For the details, see: RFC 2251(LDAP) section 4.1.2 RFC 2252 (LDAP attributes) RFC 2253 (LDAP DN) RFC 2254 (LDAP filter) RFC 2279 (UTF-8) This leaves clients responsible for converting between UTF-8 and their local charset. It can be a problem, which is not solved by any LDAP SDK (that I know of). A key problem is differentiating string-valued attributes (which require conversion) from others (which must not be converted), such as certificates and photos.

This bug has not been touched for more than nine months. In most cases, that means it has "slipped through the net". Please could the owner take a moment to add a comment to the bug with current status, and/or close it. Thank you :-) Gerv

Closing as a no-fix, PerLDAP will not do any character set conversion at this point, but modern Perl's have good support for UTF8.