Re: UTF-8 / Unicode / Local conversions

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 04:09 PM 6/16/00 -0600, Dave Steck wrote:
>Applications need a way to display data obtained through the LDAP C API's.
>
>To provide truly cross-directory and *cross-platform* API's, it seems there should be 
>a standard set of C APIs to do UTF-8 <--> Unicode conversions.
>
>There should also be a standard set of API's to convert between either UTF-8 or Unicode and local strings?
>Does anyone know of such a standard or work underway?
>

I believe it appropriate for the IETF LDAPext WG to specify an
an C API to converting between the local charset, T.61, and UTF-8.
	local <-> T.61
	local <-> UTF-8
	UTF-8 <-> T.61

However, as previously discussed, this can be specified as
a (Standard Track) extension.