Re: Net::LDAP::Util::canonical_dn

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

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:45:42PM -0000, Chris Ridd wrote:
> Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:04:06AM -0000, Chris Ridd wrote:
> > 
> >> Let's see, what canonicalisation does canonical_dn do..
> >> 
> >> * it lowercases values that are # followed by hex,
> >> * it lowercases types that start with an OID,

Actually it removes the leading oid. caharacters if the type is
an oid

> It also upper-cases attribute types.

Yes.

> I reckon it would be OK to call canonicalise_dn in the LDIF _write_cmd, but
> perhaps only in the case where the DN has a char that is not a
> 'SAFE-UTF8-CHAR', as per RFC 2849.

Well as we don't really handle UTF8 that wee yet (because perl does not either)
I will go with the regexp [\x00-\x1f\x7f-\xff]

Graham.