UTF-8 data over the LDAP Version 2 protocol

The LDAP Version 3 Protocol allows UTF-8 attribute values outside of the IA5 character set to be stored in the directory. This information must be able to be returned in some format to LDAP Version 2 clients. An additional LDAP server configuration file option, sendV3stringsoverV2as, which has the possible values ISO8859-1 or UTF-8, can be used to indicate which format to use when sending this information over the Version 2 protocol.

Note: Different clients treat non-IA5 data differently over the Version 2 protocol. See the documentation for the client APIs you are using for more information.