Re: TODO list for 2.1

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 02:42 PM 7/22/2001, Stig Venaas wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 11:48:25AM -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>> I'd like to get 2.1 out the door later this summer.
>> At this point, the biggest thing we need before we
>> release 2.1 is updated documentation.  In particular,
>> the APIs.  Anyone who has time to update a man page
>> or two, please do!
>
>Okay, I should be able to help out a bit I guess.

The biggest chunk is updating section 3 pages from
RFC1823 compatible to LDAPext I-D compatible...

>Can the UNICODE match/index/filter stuff go into 2.1?

Yes.

>I think I've
>done all that is needed except the approximate stuff. If you see
>something that is missing let me know. When it comes to approximate
>I need more time to study the algorithm, but for indexing it looks
>like it only looks at characters up to the first space or non-ascii
>character. I think perhaps the easiest and maybe most sensible
>solution for non-ascii characters, is simply to strip them, so that
>say Köln is indexed as kln. For Unicode characters with ascii starting
>characters (like ö) we could perhaps use the starting characters. In
>this case we would then get Koln. But what to do if someone stores
>say a string in Japanese where all characters are non-ascii and no
>ascii starting characters... Well, I'll give it some thought, but if
>you have some thoughts, let me know.

The only requirement I have is X.500's...  if A and B are
same per the EQUALITY matching rule than they MUST be the
same per the APPROX matching rule...