[Mono-dev] System.DirectoryServices text encoding

JD Conley jd.conley at coversant.net
Mon Aug 22 14:38:52 EDT 2005


> I've been working with Novell.Directory and System.DirectoryServices
> quite a bit recently. I was wondering about the seemingly arbitrary
> UTF-8 encoding that is going on in there. Is UTF-8 the only Unicode
text
> encoding used by LDAP text based attributes in the spec?

Nevermind, I just looked at RFC 2251 and it does appear that UTF-8 is
the only supported Unicode encoding of string types.  Sorry, was too
lazy to RTFM. :)

-JD



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