On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Adrian Studer wrote:

> Does anybody know under what criteria an LDAP attribute is treated as binary
> and encoded accordingly in the response?

I can only recommend reading the source if the manual isn't good enough. I
don't remember this right now and I am generally clueless with LDAP details.

Oh, and feel free to post a manual patch to rectify the problem once you find
out!

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