Re: Greek characters - Utf8 encoding.

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:02:35AM +0000, Chris Ridd wrote:
> 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.

Hm, yes had not thought about that. Ah well if it causes a problem we will fix it.

Graham.