At 06:19 AM 3/1/2006, Luke Howard wrote: >Apologies if this has been brought up before. > >I think it might be useful to always escape non-printable characters:
I think it's better to have minimal escaping on the wire as DNs strings are (too) often presented by UIs as they appear on the wire (on Unicode capable devices). > #define LDAP_DN_NEEDESCAPE(c) \ >- ( LDAP_DN_ESCAPE(c) || LDAP_DN_NE(c) ) >+ ( LDAP_DN_ESCAPE(c) || LDAP_DN_NE(c) || !LDAP_DN_ASCII_PRINTABLE(c) ) > >It seems to me nicer to see them escaped rather than have the whole >DN base64 encoded, when presenting DNs using ldapsearch. I view this as a separate issue. For LDIF, ldapsearch(1) escapes non-ASCII strings as we're not sure the user's terminal/printer is UTF-8 capable. It would be good to have a flag that caused minimal-escaping LDIF to be produced (for those who do have UTF-8 capable terminal/printers). Kurt
