Russ Housley wrote:
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.
Type PrintableString contains the following values:
Name Graphic
Capital letters A, B, ... Z
Small letters a, b, ... z
Digits 0, 1, ... 9
Space (space)
Apostrophe '
Left Parenthesis (
Right Parenthesis )
Plus sign +
Comma ,
Hyphen -
Full stop .
Solidus /
Colon :
Equal sign =
Question mark ?
which looks like enough to do a lot of things, but
it omits some of my favorites, such as \ | { } [ ]
" < > * & $ # @ ! ` % and ~. While I am not claiming
to have a 'requirement', I do think that not at least
allowing for all of the characters found easily by
users on their keyboards is an unfortunate subset,
even for folks in the US.
I tend to believe that international standards should
support international languages, but it's just a belief
that it's the right thing to do; that it's the net
we're trying to build; that it's the future. But I know
that actually implementing support for national languages
is difficult and costly.
Phil
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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