Re: T.61<->iso8859-1 (or whatever) conversions

Roland Hedberg (Roland.Hedberg@umdac.umu.se)
Thu, 2 Mar 1995 13:18:21 +0100 (MET)

On Wed, 1 Mar 1995, Michael Gsandtner wrote:

> > > Hi, I'm wondering where to put T.61 handling in an LDAP client. Has
> > > anyone done this? Experiences? I asked this ldap@umich at first, but
> > > Tim Howes is on vacation:
> > >
> >
> I asked this some times ago. Here is Mark Smith's answer:
>
>
> > Again my question: What's about T.61 <-> ISO8859 conversion ?
>
>
> We feel it is inappropriate to do any conversion in the ldap server
> (unless the protocol were changed to deal with the whole character set
> issue). It is not necessarily the case the ISO8859 is any better than
> T.61 for some people.

I second this !
It's better to leave it to the client.

-- Roland

UFN: Roland Hedberg, Umdac, Umea Universitet, Sweden