At 04:27 AM 8/11/2003, Dan Oscarsson wrote: >All attributes in LDAPv3 uses UTF-8 encoding.
I like to point out that this statement is not true. Encoding of attribute values depends on its syntax, sometimes dependent on transfer options. Some textual string are not UTF-8 encoded Unicode (in real world directories). Also, the API has generally no clue as to the syntax of values transferred... making transcoding at the API level quite problematic. Kurt