Esteemed Monks,

just a quick question before I scarper for my supper - more information tomorrow if required:

I am using tried and tested code (well, it was using Mozilla::LDAP and has recently been rolled over to Net::LDAP) to add an entry to an LDAP directory

In this case it is an Exchange 5.5 GAL, but the same code is used for a 'real' X.500 directory. I suspect that most of this is irrelevant.

The '$ldap_entry->update' method works fine and my new entry appears in the GAL; there is just one problem. A special character (decimal 167) which is a kind of double 's' in the UTF-8 character set appears to be being stripped out during the LDAP update.

I can see the data in the new LDAP entry before I call the update method, but the data is not making it into the directory, although there is no error code returned.

I was wondering if this was a known feature of Net::LDAP and if I had to do some kind of conversion of the data before I updated the LDAP directory

Any suggestions welcomed; my tea will be even more welcome ;-)

Cheers

LGC

Nothing succeeds like a budgie with no teeth.

In reply to Net::LDAP and special characters by LittleGreyCat

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