A UTF-8 database has a fixed collation sequence. That sequence is the binary order of the UTF-8 characters. It is not possible to do language-sensitive collation with a UTF-8 database.
If it is important to your LDAP applications or users to get results for a search using an ordering filter (for example, "name >= SMITH") or any search specifying the control to sort the results as they would expect for their native language, then UTF-8 might not be the appropriate character set for their directory database. In that instance, the LDAP server system and all client systems should run using the same character set and locale. For example, an LDAP server running in a Spanish locale with a database created using that locale returns results of searches based on character ordering, as Spanish-language clients would expect. This configuration does limit your directory user community to a single end-user character set and collation sequence.
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