Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
By raising these points, I hope to show that simply removing the ASCII restrictions will lead to problems, and even though some of them (such as invalid UTF-8) can be address by installing various restrictions, the simple fact that LDIF represents LDAP data not text will lead to various problems (such as unintended text file conversions, inability to use text processing programs, etc.). -- Kurt
Agreed. Not to mention that to implement this properly will require complete schema knowledge at the time the LDIF is generated. (Otherwise, how do you distinguish a genuine octetString value, which cannot be safely represented in UTF-8, from a directoryString value...)
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