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Re: String conversions UTF8 <-> ISO-8859-1

To: h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no
Subject: Re: String conversions UTF8 <-> ISO-8859-1
From: Luke Howard <lukeh@PADL.COM>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 18:13:28 +1000
Cc: Kurt@OpenLDAP.org, openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
Organization: PADL Software Pty Ltd
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>So I'd really like OpenLDAP to provide charset conversion.  From
>message <HBF.20030430vsve@bombur.uio.no>, the options then seem to
>be callbacks or to provide another charset-aware library which
>completely duplicates the LDAP API, but which does charset conversion.
>That seems very cumbersome, so I prefer callbacks.

Although hard to do in a portable fashion, a third party could write
a wrapper API that exposes the same ABI as libldap, wrapping the
real one and providing necessary conversion.

-- Luke

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Luke Howard | PADL Software Pty Ltd | www.padl.com

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