UTF-8 support and other quirks in the LDAP backend (in 2.2.4).

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:31:16AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:24:12PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 
> > I do hope that tdb ends up going with UTF-8.  UCS2 is not particularly
> > pleasant to work with under Unix; it's not endian-neutral, it doesn't
> > provide ASCII as a compatibility subset, and it has to be converted to
> > something else before it can be used by the majority of Unix tools.
> > Granted, to a certain extent this is already true with tdb because it's
> > a binary format, but making the import/export tools more complex gives
> > you less margin for error.  Unless Samba chooses UCS-2 as an internal
> > format for string processing (which I also don't think is the best idea
> > in the world ;), using UCS-2 as a backend charset seems like an
> > all-around bad idea, IMHO.
> 
> Yes, I think internal format (and format for tdbs) of utf8 seems
> like the best idea (IMHO).
There is a problem with utf8 for many fixed-size records in various tdbs.
Also, most of data is in UCS-2 already.
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/ Alexander Bokovoy
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