A new property (ldap.encodeMultibyteCharacters) is introduced that controls if multibyte characters in LDAP search queries are escaped.

Escaping of these characters started with the fix for OF-830, which appears to have caused OF-1305. Although I can't say that escaping of characters is wrong (per RFC 4515), it does cause real-world problems.

This fix defaults to not encoding again (reverting back to the behavior pre OF-830, without affecting other changes made in OF-830).