LDAPv3: Character Sets
LDAPv2 only allowed for ASCII and T.61
- Based on legacy of X.500 environment
- T.61 can represent only some Western European characters
LDAPv3: UTF-8 entry names and attribute values
- UTF-8 is a variable-length encoding of ISO 10646
- ASCII characters are identical in UTF-8
- Unicode is a subset of ISO 10646