Re: Greek characters - Utf8 encoding.

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

Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:33:46PM +0000, Chris Ridd wrote:
>> So since Net::LDAP is character-set agnostic, it handles UTF-8 values OK.
>> What you do with the bytes of the value once you get them from Net::LDAP
>> is up to you. Presumably there are ways in perl 5.6 to convert a string
>> full of bytes which happen to be a UTF-8 representation of a string into
>> a string which is interpreted by perl as UTF-8. I seem to recall that
>> perl 5.6 has ways to do these conversions.
> 
> In 5.6 (if Net::LDAP will work with 5.6) the strings should be returned as
> UTF8 IIRC.
> 
> Graham.

Even when talking to an LDAPv2 server? You don't know what character set is
being used by the LDAPv2 server, so converting to UTF-8 won't be possible.

Cheers,

Chris