Why does the X.500 standard require that data sent back to the client will not be in a specified order?
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Dec 1998
Q.
Dear Ab-end: It's me, Faulty Memory again. That's all well and good, that bit about NetWare 4.1 adhering to X.500, but now I have another question: Why does the X.500 standard require that data sent back to the client will not be in a specified order?
—Just Curious This Time
A.
Dear Curious: It's quite simple. The sort order of the data depends on which language the data was originally in. Spanish, French, English, and Japanese all do sorts in a different order. Utilities sort the data, or the contents of a container, before displaying that data on the screen with certain limitations imposed on them from the workstation CPU speed, RAM and disk space, and the length of time the user is willing to wait for a screen refresh.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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