Re: non-ASCII chars from LDAP correctly encoded in Perl

On 20/1/06 1:49, Peter Marschall <peter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> as announced in my post from 28. October (see below) I have committed
> a patch to perl-ldap's SVN that allows to get attribute values from LDAP
> directories and LDIF files correctly encoded as Perl strings.
> 
> This is especially interesting for people who have strings with non-ASCII
> values in their directories.

This sounds like a good idea, but the name "binary" is horribly overloaded
and misused in LDAP.

Can you think of a better name? Is something like "non-utf8" better?

You're also assuming that the received values will be UTF-8, which is not
correct if you're talking to an LDAPv2 server.

Cheers,

Chris