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Re: Encoding responsibility

To: Gary Williams <Gary.Williams@sas.com>
Subject: Re: Encoding responsibility
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:07:24 -0700
Cc: "'OpenLDAP-General@openldap.org'" <OpenLDAP-General@OpenLDAP.org>
In-reply-to: <DB8AFFD38A30D311BA6D0090276DC8C001F9CD67@merc09.us.sas.com >

At 10:43 AM 5/10/00 -0400, Gary Williams wrote:
>DN's, and other data in Version 3 LDAP directories is
>supposed to be UTF-8 encoded ISO 10646 characters.  Whose
>responsibility is it to convert and encode the characters?
>That is, if I'm writing an application, do I pass encoded
>data to the API, or should the API do the conversion?

Depends upon the API.  In LDAP C APIs [per latest I-D],
applications are responsible for provided properly
encoded data.  In Java APIs [per latest I-D], the
API converts to UTF-8.  Of course, to do so, the
API must be aware of schema (as not all attribute
type values are represented as character strings).

	Kurt

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