Default charset for javax.naming.directory.Attribute, with binary attrib?

Greetings,

Does anyone know what charset is used when an unknown (as being binary) attribute is encountered? I need this to correctly decode the String to its octect equivalent....

I've tried several charsets (passed via String.getByte(String charsetName)), none produces the correct result.

And strangely enough, this doesn't seem to be very prominately documented, if at all.

I'm aware of the 'java.naming.ldap.attributes.binary' property, but cannot use it due to a limitation of a 3rd party wrapper API.

Thanks in adavnce,

ken

[578 byte] By [ken@kensystem.coma] at [2007-9-23]