diff --git a/inc/inc.ClassLdapAuthentication.php b/inc/inc.ClassLdapAuthentication.php
index 987a6a4e9..ff4eb17b9 100644
--- a/inc/inc.ClassLdapAuthentication.php
+++ b/inc/inc.ClassLdapAuthentication.php
@@ -47,9 +47,21 @@ class SeedDMS_LdapAuthentication extends SeedDMS_Authentication {
 		if(isset($ldapgroups['count']))
 			$count = (int) $ldapgroups['count'];
 		for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
-			$tmp = ldap_explode_dn($ldapgroups[$i], 1);
+			if(0) {
+				/* ldap_explode_dn() turns all utf-8 chars into \xx
+				 * This needs to be undone with the following regex.
+				 */
+				$tmp = ldap_explode_dn($ldapgroups[$i], 1);
+				$tmp[0]	= preg_replace_callback('/\\\([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/', function ($matches) { return chr(hexdec($matches[1])); }, $tmp[0]);
+			} else {
+				/* Second option would be to not using ldap_explode_dn()
+				 * and just extract the cn with
+				 * preg_match('/[^cn=]([^,]*)/i', $ldapgroups[$i], $tmp);
+				 */
+				preg_match('/[^cn=]([^,]*)/i', $ldapgroups[$i], $tmp);
+			}
 			if (!in_array($tmp[0], $groupnames)) {
-				$groupnames[] = $tmp[0];
+				$groupnames[] = preg_replace_callback('/\\\([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/', function ($matches) { return chr(hexdec($matches[1])); }, $tmp[0]);
 			}
 		}