Bug #13795: no special german characters returned by LDAP

From: christian.storck@ron.de Operating system: Windows NT 4.0 Server PHP version: 4.0.6 PHP Bug Type: LDAP related Bug description: no special german characters returned by LDAP What I wanted to do: I wrote a script that connects to a Microsoft Exchange Server using the LDAP support of PHP. To do so I used the Example provided with the PHP manual (chapter XLIII). The values the Exchange Server returns are put into tables and are displayed by a browser. What I expected the script to do: I expected the script to return the values as set in Exchange but the values returned do not contain special german characters. They are being replaced. I searched for an solution everywhere but there seems to be none. I also found some people who have the same problems with PHP´s LDAP support. This seems to be a general problem with the german character set. -- Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=13795&edit=1