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

On Jun 11, 2009, at 8:12 AM, Michael Ströder wrote:

>>
>> If you are right, that LDIF is purely for exchanging information
>> between applications, never to be looked at by humans, then why is
>> the current version so human friendly ?
>
> Most parts of LDIF data is human-readable because most data is ASCII  
> and
> most consoles or other apps do not have problems displaying ASCII.

I do not concur with this statement.  I find that most applications  
can generally deal with one line separator convention in US-ASCII  
files and there are multiple line separator conventions.

> This does not say anything about whether to lift the ASCII  
> restriction or not.


The US-ASCII problems might suggest that use of Net-ASCII might have  
been more appropriate than US-ASCII.

-- Kurt