On Jun 11, 2009, at 8:12 AM, Michael Ströder wrote:
If you are right, that LDIF is purely for exchanging information between applications, never to be looked at by humans, then why is the current version so human friendly ?Most parts of LDIF data is human-readable because most data is ASCII andmost consoles or other apps do not have problems displaying ASCII.
I do not concur with this statement. I find that most applications can generally deal with one line separator convention in US-ASCII files and there are multiple line separator conventions.
This does not say anything about whether to lift the ASCII restriction or not.
The US-ASCII problems might suggest that use of Net-ASCII might have been more appropriate than US-ASCII.
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