> Just curious... I see no commits to git since 10/2008.  I sent a  
> private email a while back about a nasty issue with Net::LDAP::LDIF  
> when used with UTF8 characters.

<chrisr...@mac.com> wrote:

> On 4 Sep 2009, at 20:40, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

>> Just curious... I see no commits to git since 10/2008.  I sent a
>> private email a while back about a nasty issue with Net::LDAP::LDIF
>> when used with UTF8 characters.

> Are you looking at the git repo?

> --On Saturday, September 05, 2009 6:48 PM +0100 Chris Ridd <chrisr...@mac.com
> > wrote:

>> On 4 Sep 2009, at 20:40, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

>>> Just curious... I see no commits to git since 10/2008.  I sent a
>>> private email a while back about a nasty issue with Net::LDAP::LDIF
>>> when used with UTF8 characters.

>> Are you looking at the git repo?

> Yeah, I was looking at the online git bit... But I see the link  
> there limits it to the 0.39 release by default. :P  Still, even  
> after adjusting for that, there hasn't been much going on. :/

> <http://git.goingon.net/?p=perl-ldap.git;a=shortlog>

> Still shows 2008/11/12 as the last time something happened:
> description        Perl LDAP client library
> owner      Graham Barr
> last change        Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:29:39 +0000
> URL        git://git.goingon.net/perl-ldap.git

> On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> Just curious... I see no commits to git since 10/2008.  I sent a
>> private email a while back about a nasty issue with Net::LDAP::LDIF
>> when used with UTF8 characters.

> No it is not dead. Things have just been a bit crazy for me recently.

> I obviously missed your private email. please resend.

<qua...@zimbra.com> wrote:
> --On Monday, September 14, 2009 9:01 AM -0500 Graham Barr
> <gb...@pobox.com> wrote:

>> On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>>> Just curious... I see no commits to git since 10/2008.  I sent a
>>> private email a while back about a nasty issue with Net::LDAP::LDIF
>>> when used with UTF8 characters.

>> No it is not dead. Things have just been a bit crazy for me recently.

>> I obviously missed your private email. please resend.

> Graham,

> Thanks!  I'll track it down today and resend it.  And I completely
> understand about times getting crazy. ;)

> On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Graham Barr wrote:
>>>>> On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>>>>>> Just curious... I see no commits to git since 10/2008.  I sent a
>>>>>> private email a while back about a nasty issue with  
>>>>>> Net::LDAP::LDIF
>>>>>> when used with UTF8 characters.

>>>>> No it is not dead. Things have just been a bit crazy for me  
>>>>> recently.

>>>>> I obviously missed your private email. please resend.

>>>> Thanks!  I'll track it down today and resend it.  And I completely
>>>> understand about times getting crazy. ;)

>>> Ok, I resent the email yesterday.  Can you confirm you received  
>>> it? :)

>> Yes I got it. Seems a strange situation but I will try to look at  
>> it this week.

> Quanah,

> I took a look at your example. The issue is that the DN has non-
> ascii characters in it, but the encode option to Net::LDAP::LDIF is  
> left at thte default value of 'none'. 'none' seems an odd default as  
> it can generate invalid output. I think it was meant more for quick  
> debugging output as base64 hides the data. 'base64' would seem a  
> more reasonable default to me.

> Chris, You made this code change back in 2001

> http://github.com/gbarr/perl-ldap/commit/234d7da34091ade7286593730eaf...

> It was a long time ago so you probably cannot remember why you chose  
> 'none', but would you not agree that 'base64' is a better default ?