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Re: DN charset - only ASCII allowed or UTF8?

To: Heiko Nardmann <h.nardmann@secunet.de>
Subject: Re: DN charset - only ASCII allowed or UTF8?
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:08:06 -0700
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <01051812285900.13192@snsrv053>

At 03:28 AM 5/18/01, Heiko Nardmann wrote:
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>I looked at the RFC 1485 to get information about the format of DNs. What I 
>miss is whether only ASCII or whole UTF8 is allowed for DNs?

RFC 2253 details a UTF-8 string representation which used in LDAPv3
[RFC 2251].  RFC 1779 details a string representation which is
character set/encoding neutral, but RFC 1777 restricts DNs used
in LDAPv2 to IA5 (ASCII).

Kurt

References:
- DN charset - only ASCII allowed or UTF8?
  - From: Heiko Nardmann <h.nardmann@secunet.de>

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