Re: UTF-8 full support in LDIF / LDIF v2

Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ldapext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael Ströder wrote:
> Yves Dorfsman wrote:
>> Jim Willeke wrote:
>>
>>> Is the suggestion to utilize and indicator similar to the HTTP charset
>>> parameter (Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8) ?
>> I don't think we ever got it that well defined, but I guess, yes this
>> would be one way of doing it.
> 
> I'd prefer not to mix protocol specs here. The above key-word
> "Content-Type:" is used in HTTP and MIME headers. IMO there's no need to
> address that in the LDIF spec. One could suggest that content type
> should be set to
> 
> Content-Type: application/directory; charset=utf-8
> 
> if the LDIF is encapsulated in MIME. But that's not part of LDIF itself.
> 

Michael: Thanks for re-starting this thread. Some of Steven Legg's comment 
got me stuck, and then my priorities got shifted (looking for new 
contracts). I'll carry the thread following up on Steven's messages.

-- 
Yves.
http://www.sollers.ca/

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