Convert Active Directory Object to string

[Dirk Hagemann]

Ok - this really works well for german special characters, but what to
do with all the other encodings.
What I could do is to try to vonvert it to latin-1 and if it fails I
try latin-2 and so on. But is this really necessary? Isn't there may me
a module which can do this for me and returns a string?

What I want to do in the end is the following: I get some data from
Active Directory, then I create a SQL-statement including this data and
write this into the database.

regards
Dirk