National language support (NLS) considerations

Be aware of the following NLS considerations:

• Data is transferred between LDAP servers and clients in UTF-8 format. All ISO 10646 characters are allowed.
• The Directory Server uses the UTF-16 mapping method to store data in the database.
• The server and the client do case insensitive string comparisons. The uppercase algorithms will not be correct for all languages (locales).

For more information about UCS-2, see "Globalization" in the Planning topic.