[turba] couple things
    Chuck Hagenbuch 
    chuck at horde.org
       
    Mon Jan 13 18:05:21 PST 2003
    
    
  
Quoting Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>:
>    In encodings where an arbitrary string, not a Distinguished Name, is
>    used as part of a larger production, and other than as part of a
>    Distinguished Name, a backslash quoting mechanism is used to escape
>    the following separator symbol character (such as "'", "$" or "#") if
>    it should occur in that string.  The backslash is followed by a pair
>    of hexadecimal digits representing the next character.  A backslash
>    itself in the string which forms part of a larger syntax is always
>    transmitted as '\5C' or '\5c'. An example is given in section 6.27.
> 
> So to put a "$" in a string, it would be encoded as "\24", the hex value
> of $ preceeded by a backslash.
Great, thanks. Anyone want to turn this into a patch for the LDAP driver
(actually, for all of our LDAP drivers)?
-chuck
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