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Re: possible parsing problem with OSI-DS 23 (Distinguished Names)

Philip Gladstone <philip@cgin.cto.citicorp.com> Wed, 03 February 1993 21:54 UTC

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From: Philip Gladstone <philip@cgin.cto.citicorp.com>
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To: Allan.Cargille@cs.wisc.edu, s.kille@isode.com
Subject: Re: possible parsing problem with OSI-DS 23 (Distinguished Names)
Cc: "Allan@cs.wisc.edu, < Allan"@cs.wisc.edu, "Allan.Cargille" <Allan.Cargille@cs.wisc.edu>, "C. @cs.wisc.edu>, C."@cs.wisc.edu, osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk

In regard to quoted strings:

Why not just use a simple \ escape to escape the next character?

thus    cn="Joe\"bar"
or even cn=Joe\"bar

Philip

p.s. how are accented characters handled?

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