Luís Fernando C. Talora wrote:

Friends,

I´m having some trouble with ldapserach on Linux comunicating with a LDAP server. In fact, everything works just fine, until my query finds and object that has any accents on its name. For example: if I have an object named "Luis Talora", its shown OK; in oposite, if its name is "Luís Talora", with an acute accent, its distinguish name is shown like this: "Q049THXDrXMgRmVybmFuZG8gQy4gVGFsb3JhLE9VPVRJLE9VPUFSQSxPVT1Vc3VhcmlvcyxEQz1pbmVwYXIsREM9Y29tLERDPWJy". In Portuguese, is very common that people have accents in their names...

Do anybody know a way to fix that behavior?

There is nothing to fix. DirectoryStrings containing non-ASCII chars, like accented letters, are displayed by ldapsearch(1) encoded in base64, according to RFC 2849. Your string, de coded, looks like

echo -n "Q049THXDrXMgRmVybmFuZG8gQy4gVGFsb3JhLE9VPVRJLE9VPUFSQSxPVT1Vc3VhcmlvcyxEQz1pbmVwYXIsREM9Y29tLERDPWJy" | base64 -d CN=Luís Fernando C. Talora,OU=TI,OU=ARA,OU=Usuarios,DC=inepar,DC=com,DC=br

(any newline inserted by the mailer). If you want them to be shown in readable form, either decode them, or use another client.

p.

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Luís Fernando C. Talora wrote:

its distinguish name is shown like this: "Q049THXDrXMgRmVybmFuZG8gQy4gVGFsb3JhLE9VPVRJLE9VPUFSQSxPVT1Vc3VhcmlvcyxEQz1pbmVwYXIsREM9Y29tLERDPWJy".

This is base64-encoded LDIF representation of NON-ASCII chars e.g. output by ldapsearch. The double colon :: indicates that an LDIF parser has to base64-decode it to get the real value (see RFC 2849). The data itself is actually transferred on the wire by LDAPv3 as Unicode with UTF-8 encoding (in case of attributes of syntax DirectoryString, like 'cn').

Use another more GUI-oriented client which is capable of displaying Unicode chars to explore this.

Ciao, Michael.