Michael Ströder wrote: > Zhang Weiwu wrote: >> >> Since I have been working on a Chinese language based directory the >> ldapsearch tool was difficult for me to use, the result is always not >> readable. >> >> This is because if an attribute value contain Chinese, it's >> automatically displayed using base64. I had to copy & paste the result >> to 'base64 -d' to read every result, which kills my efficiency. > > This LDIF output is supposed to be ASCII-clean. Yes I know, and is the only command line tool currently on my computer that doesn't output Chinese in UTF-8, given the console (both framebuffer and X11 terminals) supports UTF-8... (I do most things on commandline except browsing, e.g. using SQL client)
I would consider being able to produce UTF-8 is a requirement, being able to output ASCII-only is an option that some user find useful and can activate or configure/enable, if you can think from a non-western oriented view. > You can easily pass it around in e-mails. As easy as I pass command-line output that contain Chinese to email? I've been doing such things for years:)
