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Re: strange (swedish) characters
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gillingwater" <paul@lanifex.com>
To: <michael@stroeder.com>; "Michael Strφder" <michael@stroeder.com>
Cc: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: strange (swedish) characters
> Quoting Michael Strφder <michael@stroeder.com>:
>
> > Paul Gillingwater wrote:
> > >
> > > Assuming you're loading from an LDIF file, I first process
> > > the LDIF file with a Perl script I wrote, that converts from
> > > ISO 8559-1 Latin1 to UTF-8,
> >
> > IMHO you should also base64 *all* occurences of strings containing
> > 8-bit chars. Yes, also the UTF-8 strings.
> >
> > Ciao, Michael.
>
> Yes, 100% agree. The code snippet I wrote does both -- first, it
> checks to see if there are any 8-bit characters, then converts them
> to UTF-8, and then Base64 encodes them. I realize the original
> query assumed that they had UTF-8 already, but decided that other
> people might find this useful.
>
> On another topic -- has anyone developed any PHP or TCL-based Web gateways
for
> making changes to their LDAP data, which includes support for conversion
of UTF-
> 8 and MIME Base64 encoding? Which packages have you all found useful?
>
To add to this solution quest, does anyone know a C/C++ library (or source)
to do UTF-8 conversion
(back and forth) and Base64 encoding (or has implemented one of its own) ???
I have to use greek characters and it would be a great help.
> And a third topic -- we've had no end of trouble finding a LDAP library
binding
> that works reliably with TCL. Has anyone been able to make this work?
>
> cheers, and thanks in advance for any help!
>
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