LDAP Version 2 Clients Receive Extended Characters Instead of IA5 for Search Queries

If Netscape Communicator version 4.5 is performing a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) search request against an Exchange Server computer for a directory entry containing extended characters, these characters are not displayed correctly.

Netscape Communicator 4.5 is a LDAP version 2 client and so expects to receive IA5 characters only.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Exchange Server version 5.5. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

Component: Directory


This hotfix has been posted to the following Internet location as Psp2diri.exe (x86) and Psp2dira.exe (Alpha):

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Exchange Serverversion 5.5. This problem was first corrected in Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 3.

Outlook Express 4.0 has no such problem because it is an LDAP version 3 client and so supports receiving UTF-8 characters.