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

Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
> By raising these points, I hope to show that simply removing the ASCII
> restrictions will lead to problems, and even though some of them (such
> as invalid UTF-8) can be address by installing various restrictions,
> the simple fact that LDIF represents LDAP data not text will lead to
> various problems (such as unintended text file conversions, inability
> to use text processing programs, etc.).
> -- Kurt

Agreed. Not to mention that to implement this properly will require complete 
schema knowledge at the time the LDIF is generated. (Otherwise, how do you 
distinguish a genuine octetString value, which cannot be safely represented in 
UTF-8, from a directoryString value...)

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