Re: UTF-8 / Unicode / Local conversions

[mcs@netscape.com (Mark C Smith)]

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
> 
> 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.

In most environments, these functions are already provided.  I am not
convinced that the LDAPEXT group should duplicate the work being done by
OS and platform vendors.  T.61 may be a special case, but I for one
would like to let T.61 die.

-- 
Mark Smith
Directory Product Development / iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions
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