Yves Dorfsman writes: > Is there any reason for not amend the LDIF RFC to accept utf-8 chars > without base64 encoding ?
It does allow that. > It seems that most LDAP servers and LDIF APIs are happy to import LDIF > files containing non-base64 encoded utf-8 characters already, and > base64 renders the LDIF file unreadable for humans. Indeed. Maybe what you are thinking of is that some applications base64-encode any string which contains 8-bit characters. Either because it would be more work to decide if a string is valid UTF-8, or because the application can't know how its output will be used. E.g. if the output will be printed to a latin-3 terminal, or sent as 7-bit e-mail. -- Hallvard
