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 More options May 21 2011, 5:08 am
From: danabr <hams...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 02:08:52 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, May 21 2011 5:08 am
Subject: What is the proper way to use Net::LDAP when sending UTF-8 strings
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Hi,

When  I upgraded from Ruby 1.8.7 to 1.9.2 (and the latest version of
net-ldap) I faced a lot of encoding issues. First, I made sure all my
strings used the same encoding (UTF-8). However, sending UTF-8 encoded
strings to net-ldap caused crashes (about not being able to concatenate
UTF-8 and ASCII-BIT strings). I solved the problems by using  
force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT") on all input to net-ldap. As far as I have been
able to tell, the data seems to be correctly formated when I look in the
LDAP directory.

Now, is this hack the proper way to deal with non-ASCII data in net-ldap? I
thought LDAP v3 defaulted to UTF-8 strings, and that net-ldap would follow
that default. If this is the proper way to deal with this issue, why not add
the conversion to net-ldap itself, so users don't have to worry?

//Daniel Abrahamsson


 
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