Using Non-UTF-8 Databases

You can run the Oracle directory server and database tools on a non-UTF-8--that is, neither UTF8 nor AL31UTF8--database, but be sure that all characters in the client character set are included in the database character set (with the same or different codes). Otherwise, you can lose data during ldapadd, ldapdelete, ldapmodify, or ldapmodifydn operations. For example, suppose that you perform an ldapadd operation using a multibyte character set on an underlying database that uses only single-byte characters. You will lose data because not all of the bytes you enter will be accepted by the database.