Re: Non ASCII char in dn?

["Pierangelo Masarati" <masarati@aero.polimi.it>]

Stig Venaas writes: 

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:09:37PM +0200, Michael Ströder wrote:
> > Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > > Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> > > 
> > >>Is there a way to put Non ASCII chars in the dn? I'm trying to add some
> > >>entries using dn: o=some company,ou=someplace,dc=mydomain,dc=com with
> > >>french characters in the o but it doesn't work even if it's UTF8 encode
> > >>is there another way I can do that?
> > > 
> > > The generic answer is: yes; see rfc2256 and draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-XX.txt
> > > basically you need to turn them in UTF-8 and then encode them as 
> > > '\'+HEXPAIR, where HEXPAIR is a couple of hexadecimal digits that 
> > > represent each octet of your char. 
> >
> > Is hex-escaping really necessary for UTF-8 chars?
> > I understand RFC2253, section 2.4 a little bit different.
>
> Me too, I really think that it shouldn't be necessary.

OK, you're right: all you need is use UTF-8; in fact we ended up
using plain UTF-8 in DN pretty form, with escaping of special chars
only for optimization. 

Pierangelo.
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