Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 Administrator's Guide

employees to be able to view directory information in their native language. When adding
directory entries, the directory administrator chooses to provide attribute values in both English
and French. When adding a directory entry for a new employee, Babs Jensen, the administrator
does the following:
1. The administrator creates a file, street.txt, with the French street address value:
1 rue de l'Université
2. The file contents are then converted to UTF-8:
iconv -t UTF-8 -o output.txt street.txt
3. The following LDIF entry is created using the UTF-8 value of the street address value for
streetAddress;lang-fr.
dn: uid=bjensen,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
objectclass: top
objectclass: person
objectclass: organizationalPerson
name: Babs Jensen
cn: Babs Jensen
sn: Jensen
uid: bjensen
streetAddress: 1 University Street
streetAddress;lang-en: 1 University Street
streetAddress;lang-fr:: AasljdoaAJASI023909jaASJaonasd0ADS
preferredLanguage: fr
The double colons after the attribute name and subtype indicate that the value is binary
base-64 encoded.
Users accessing this directory entry with an LDAP client with the preferred language set to
English will see the address 1 University Street. Users accessing the directory with an
LDAP client with the preferred language set to French will see the address 1 rue de
l'Université.
Appendix A. LDAP Data Interchange Format
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