LDAP api and utf-8

[Steve Hubert <hubert@cac.washington.edu>]

This isn't exactly the right place to ask this but it will be when
OpenLDAP 2.0 is out since it supports v3. I'm writing a simple client
which uses the API defined in the Netscape Directory SDK 3.0 for C
Programmer's Guide, which I assume will become an RFC and the API for
OpenLDAP 2.0. I'm having a hard time understanding how non-ASCII
characters are supposed to be handled.

Is it the case that the API already handles the UTF-8 to local character
set conversion, or does the API user have to explicitly decode the UTF-8?
For example, if I use

 ldap_search_ext
 ldap_result
 ldap_first_entry
 ldap_first_attribute
 ldap_get_values

to get the cn for an entry, do I have to worry about decoding the value
or has that already been done for me automatically? Thanks.

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Steve Hubert <hubert@cac.washington.edu>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle