LDIF export

["Michael Wiedmann" <michael.wiedmann@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

a short while ago there was an announcement of a Perl script which
converts Palm Pilot Adress Book enries to LDIF.
This was the reason I startet the implementation of LDIF export for
my application 'pi-address'.

Unfortunately the documentation is incomplete or inaccurate.
The behaviour of different LDIF-aware applications (like e.g. the
address book of Netscape) is inconsistent.

Up to now I found out the following:

- LDIF attribute values *can* be encoded using Latin1
  (Netscape for WinXX can successfully read such entries,
   Netscape for Solaris / Linux *cannot* read such entries,
   displaying characters > 0x7F as '?')

- LDIF attribute values *can* be encoded using UTF-8
  (same exceptions as noted above)

- LDIF attribute values *can* be encoded using T.61 (from ITU)
  (same exceptions as noted above)

- LDIF attribute values *should* be Base64-encoded if certain
  characters are embedded (e.g. CR / LF)
  (both versions can read such entries with the same exceptions
   as noted above).

I really don't know how to handle this correctly, up to now
I simply ignore the fact that there can be characters > 0x7F
(and we have quite a few of them in German language).

Has anybody here additional information on this subject?

Michael
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