Re: canonical_dn

[Peter M. <pet...@ma...>]

Hi,

On Tuesday 08 January 2002 17:27, you wrote:
> > Characters with codes > 127 have UTF8 encodings that
> > consist of 2 or more bytes that have all codes > 127.
> > Since these characters are legal in LDAPv3 DNs they should
> > not get escaped.
> True, assuming the DN given is UTF8, which it should be with
> LDAPv3 but not v2
Iin that case, adding an option called "version" to split_dn (and
eventually canonical_dn) mit help to be absolutely compatible
with the old behaviour.
Depending on "version" the quoting of special charactes can be done
(version not given or version <=3D 2) or not done (version >=3D3).
canonical_dn simply has to pass the option to split_dn

But maybe this is making things too complicated ;-))


> But the escaping should be done on the basis of the character being
> printable. Net::LDAP makes a bad assumption here.
Hmmm, ...
"Printability" may depend heavily on your terminal settings or your
application.=20
On (almost )any 8 bit computer UTF8 encoded characters are printable,
since UTF8 was designed to convert Unicode characters into variable
length 8bit chunks.
So, I wopuld suggest to - at least for LDAPv3 - leave out the
encodiung of characters in the range from 128 - 255.

Yours
Peter

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