diff -ur MigrationTools-47/migrate_passwd.pl MigrationTools-47.x/migrate_passwd.pl
--- MigrationTools-47/migrate_passwd.pl	2009-06-22 14:37:33.091177870 +0200
+++ MigrationTools-47.x/migrate_passwd.pl	2009-06-22 14:27:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@
 
 require '/etc/openldap/migrate_common.ph';
 
+use Text::Iconv;
+$converter = Text::Iconv->new("UTF-8", "ASCII//TRANSLIT");
+
 $PROGRAM = "migrate_passwd.pl";
 $NAMINGCONTEXT = &getsuffix($PROGRAM);
 
@@ -70,28 +73,6 @@
 	next if /^#/;
 	next if /^\+/;
 
-	s/Ä/Ae/g;
-	s/Ë/Ee/g;
-	s/Ï/Ie/g;
-	s/Ö/Oe/g;
-	s/Ü/Ue/g;
-
-	s/ä/ae/g;
-	s/ë/ee/g;
-	s/ï/ie/g;
-	s/ö/oe/g;
-	s/ü/ue/g;
-	s/ÿ/ye/g;
-	s/ß/ss/g;
-	s/é/e/g;
-
-	s/Æ/Ae/g;
-	s/æ/ae/g;
-	s/Ø/Oe/g;
-	s/ø/oe/g;
-	s/Å/Ae/g;
-	s/å/ae/g;
-
 	local($user, $pwd, $uid, $gid, $gecos, $homedir, $shell) = split(/:/);
 	next if (defined($minuid) and ($uid < $minuid));
 	next if (defined($maxuid) and ($uid > $maxuid));
@@ -193,7 +174,8 @@
 	}
 
 	if ($gecos) {
-		print $HANDLE "gecos: $gecos\n";
+		$cgecos = $converter->convert($gecos);
+		print $HANDLE "gecos: $cgecos\n";
 	}
 
 	print $HANDLE "\n";