TJ wrote: > Hi all, > > I hope that this will lead to some discussion on better utf-8 support.
Well, UTF8 is the only charset thats defined for LDAP, so I don't think that the support for UTF8 could be better. > It seems that ldapsearch does'nt like dn's with utf-8 chars in it. > see: [...] Thats defined behaviour according to http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2849.html - maybe you want to comment on that. > * If it really has to be this way then ldap* -D args (and others) should > accept the base64 form. Ok, this might be nifty for someone that hasn't got an UTF8-Terminal but has to search for UTF8-characters. > * This behaviour should at least have an off switch, so the user can decide > on the output form. Since ldapsearch outputs "LDIF", it should stay true to the LDIF spec. You can use Perl or any other Programming Language to build a tool that can output something other than LDIF. bye Christian -- Christian Marg mail : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dezernat 2 TU Clausthal web : http://www.tu-clausthal.de D-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld fon : 05323/72-2107 Germany jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
