Bug #12740: LDAP modify functions do not handle special characters

From: christian@metamerge.com Operating system: Linux RH 7.1 PHP version: 4.0.5 PHP Bug Type: Directory function related Bug description: LDAP modify functions do not handle special characters Hi, I am working with PHP 4.0.5 and OpenLDAP 2.0.11. I encounter problems when modifying some entries with attributes containing special chars (such as å, ø...). The error returned by the LDAP server is "invalid syntax". I have read some documentation about this. OpenLDAP can accept special chars, provided values are base64-encoded, when we use the tools that come with the application (ldapadd, ldapmodify, etc.). But how to do this from PHP functions? I tried to base64_encode the values, it naturally didn't do the trick (those values were considered as normal, and thus were not decoded - this polutes my directory.) Same goes for urlencoding. Please help! -- Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=12740&edit=1