Re: non-ASCII output for ldapsearch [PATCH]

Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Hello
> 
> It would be nice if ldapsearch could display non-ASCII strings in
> a configurable charset, instead of always encoding in base64.
> 
> I understand the current behavior is a requirement for LDIF
> compliance, but I believe we can add a non-LDIF compliant output,
> if this is what the user requested.
> 
> Attached is a quick patch that will let ldapsearch output in the
> charset specified by LDAP_CHARSET environment variable (inspiration
> from LESS_CHARSET for less(1)). That makes life much more confortable
> when handling non-english data.
> 
> It uses iconv() if <iconv.h> is detected. This function has been
> in POSIX for a while:
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xsh/iconv.html
> 
> Opinions? Thoughts? 

It would probably make more sense to just release an LDIFv2 spec,
and specify that values are in UTF-8. That would align well with the
fact that values in LDAPv3 are UTF-8.

I'm not seeing what benefit iconv brings to the table. We had a test
for it in configure for years, but nothing ever used it.
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