Managing DNs in libads only in utf8

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Feb 27 19:50:42 GMT 2007


On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:07:52PM -0500, simo wrote:
> 
> I think, and Volker seem to agree, we can make it safe to have utf8
> strings for DNs in libads, please take a look at the next proposed patch
> and let's talk about actual code and not ghosts ...

What are you trying to fix ? If someone has "unix charset != utf8"
then they have to make sure everything that comes in will map
to their charset. It's that simple.

How does your proposed patch fix that issue ? I can't see that
it's doing that, you're just moving the boundaries of the
problem, the problem still exists. And our boundaries at
the moment are in a good place, I *really* don't want to
move them as it will confuse the code more than it improves
it.

In short I think you're wasting your time here, and I'd
rather you fix real rather than imagined bugs :-).

Jeremy.


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