Re: make output of ldapsearch readable (disable base64)

To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
Subject: Re: make output of ldapsearch readable (disable base64)
From: Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:43:29 +0200
Cc: openldap-software@openldap.org
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Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:

At the moment I would not introduce other output formats than LDIF. The
usefulness of hex-dumps in comparison to base64-encoded data is debatable.


Well, you have an ascii column at the end that helps reading what's
inside a bit more easily than base64.


Which won't help with displaying Chinese UTF-8 strings at all.

Ciao, Michael.

References:
- Re: make output of ldapsearch readable (disable base64)
  - From: manu@netbsd.org (Emmanuel Dreyfus)