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RE: Comment on ESS and Privacy Marks

1998-02-16 18:01:56
Does anyone have a requirement for characters that are not supported by
PrintableString?  I do not want to add complexity unless it solves a
problem for someone.

Russ


At 12:22 PM 2/16/98 -0800, Blake Ramsdell wrote:
On Friday, February 13, 1998 3:30 PM, jsp(_at_)jgvandyke(_dot_)com
[SMTP:jsp(_at_)jgvandyke(_dot_)com] wrote:
   utf8String   OCTET STRING -- MUST contain UTF-8-encoded characters

My understanding is that 1997 ASN.1 is going to include UTF-8.  Is there
a universal tag that we can use from any draft 1997 ASN.1 documents?  We
can employ the same hack we are currently using for BMP STRING --
defining a universal tag in an ASN.1 module.  I am concerned about the
backwards compatibility of saying to future clients "ESSPrivacyMark
SHOULD accept utf8String encoded as an OCTET STRING as well as a UTF8
STRING (or whatever the universal tag ends up being)".

Blake
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