Hi,
As my name contains a german umlaut I do get an error adding 'Götz Reinicke' for the gecko.
Do you mean 'gecos' with that? The 'gecos' attribute from the NIS-schema is an IA5 string [1], which is equal to ASCII. You won't be able to use special characters with that one.
Also for 'displayName', 'cn' and 'givenName' the 'ö' is automatically replaced by 'oe'.
If I change the entry in the ldap by hand in the apache DS, the 'ö' is accepted accept for the geckos. An 'ü' in 'o' is manually accepted to.
How is your ldif file encoded? 'cn', 'givenName' and so on are defined as SUB to 'name', which is defined with "Directory Sting" syntax [2] aka UTF-8.
Regards, Christian Manal
[1] http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26.html
[2] http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15.html