Re: utf8

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Mark Wilcox <mew...@un...> wrote:
> as I understand it (I"m sure Chris or Kurt will correct me :), the
> 'native' string format for LDAP 3 is utf8.
>
> Many LDAP APIs use utf8 internally, but Net::LDAP isn't one of them
> because Perl doesn't have true, native support for utf8 yet (it's better
> in 5.6, but don't use 5.6, it's buggy & Net::LDAP is great bug bait for
> 5.6).
> 
> Until then, you might have to do something like you showed below.
> 
> Mark

Yup, I agree. We also should remember that Net::LDAP supports LDAPv2, and
will bind by default also using LDAPv2. It is not legal to use UTF-8 using
LDAPv2.

> 
> 
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Stefan Poschenrieder wrote:
> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> is there any good way to read/write into the DS
>> in utf8 ?
>> i dont wanna do it that way :
>> print utf8($entry->get("configattributname"));
>> 
>> by the way, i am still using 0.14 ..
>> will the application still work when i upgrade ?

There are some minor API differences. The ChangeLog file should list all of
these:

http://perl-ldap.sourceforge.net/perl-ldap-0.20/ChangeLog

Cheers,

Chris (back from Japan!)