Re: strict UTF-8 (Was: Problems with case folding of UTF-8)

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
> 
> At 10:53 AM 2001-12-22, Michael Ströder wrote:
> >Well, the right moment to ask whether OpenLDAP's UTF-8 decoder is
> >also strict (see section 6 of RFC 2279).
> 
> It's actually quite loose.  Encoding NUL as
> C0 80 is allowed while encoding as 00 breaks
> things (due to the use of char * instead of
> struct berval *).  That will change.

Hopefully! Especially when checking ACLs. Well, there should also be
well-defined rules for parsing the configuration files.

There were already some Unicode-/UTF-8-related postings on Bugtraq
(most times they affected MS IIS).

Ciao, Michael.