Used charset in ldap tree

[Frank Matthieß]

Dieter Kluenter [2005-07-19 23:08 CEST]:
> "Dieter Kluenter" <dieter at dkluenter.de> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Frank Matthieß <frankm at lug-owl.de> writes:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> which ist the used charset inside the ldap tree?
> >> Is their a fixed standard? UTF-8? ISO-8859-1? ISO-8859-15?
> >
> > It has to bee UTF-8. (RFC2253)
> 
> To extend this, it depends on the attribute's syntax definition. Most
> attributes have syntax directory string or IA5 string (which in
> principle is ascii), both are in fact UTF-8, on the other side, the
> syntax of userPassword is octet string, and you will find a few more
> exceptions.   
> When it comes to presenting search results to clients, any string, not
> being IA5 string, is presented as base64 encoded string and it is up
> to the clients to decode this string to proper character sets.

I saw that the webinterface converts all values with special characters
to base64. This seems to be base64 encode iso-8859-15. Is it right?

Frank.
-- 
Frank Matthieß

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