[turba] couple things

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>:

> Ummm, I don't think this belongs in the LDAP driver, although maybe I
> misunderstand how the Turba code works.  The "$" only means "newline" in
> the context of a postal address attribute.  For other ldap attributes, a
> dollar sign should just be treated as a normal character, no need to
> escape.  Also, the "$" as a newline character is just a convention.  The
> LDAP server does not interpret the "$" as any special when it is storing
> it or sending the value to the client.  The client is responsible for
> treating a "$" as a newline character.

Ah. Is this a consistent convention? Can we expect other reasonable clients
to obey this? Or is this just a "some people think it's a good idea" convention?

-chuck

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