String Types.

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Subject: String Types.

All,

  I need a little help with String types.  I don't have the 
definitions for some of them, and I was wondering if someone
could give me some help.  I would like to find out what
character set each String type contains, and how would
character sets other than english be represented in the
Directory.

NumericString
PrintableString
VisibleString
IA5String
BMPString
UniversalString

Thank you,
John.

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John MacAuley
FiberWorld R&D,             E-mail: macauley@bnr.ca
Bell-Northern Research,             hacksaw@csd.uwo.ca
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