Hi all,

I am trying to add localized users into ldap i.e LANG=ja_JP.SJIS

while creating ldif file i am converting SJIS chars into UTF-8 format.

if i give value attribute "gecos:" in ldif file in localized format

I am not able add the user its giving me following error

<error> additional info: gecos: value #0 invalid per syntax </error>

If i am giving rest of the attributes in localized format it works fine

Only problem is with gecos field

can anyone tell is this the desired behavior or Am i missing something?

OpenLDAP version:2.4.11

O.S: RHEL 4.3

"gecos" has syntax IA5 string, so it does not accept UTF-8, but plain ASCII.

p.

anish patil wrote:

Thanks a lot

>>if i give value attribute "gecos:" in ldif file in localized format
>> I am not able add the user its giving me following error
>><error>
>> additional info: gecos: value #0 invalid per syntax
>></error>
>> If i am giving rest of the attributes in localized format it
works fine
>> can anyone tell is this the desired behavior or Am i missing
something?
>>"gecos" has syntax IA5 string, so it does not accept UTF-8, but
plain ASCII.

This means that gecos attribute accepts only ASCII characters.

Is there any openldap documention which speciffies the same thing?

Whenever possible the schema files shipped with OpenLDAP simply contain what's written in the standard documents. In this particular case see RFC 2307, chapter 3.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2307.txt

While it might look desirable for you to change that you might run into serious interop issues with client software when doing so.

Ciao, Michael.