Conversion question

"Markus Moeller" <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:49:32 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.directory
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have a program which does an ldap search and then prints the found 
attribute values. Thsi works fine for english character sets. But when the 
ldap server contains accents or umlauts I get unreadable strings. How do I 
convert them ?

Thank you
Markus