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

Markus Kuhn <mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Mon, 08 February 1993 12:28 UTC

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From: Markus Kuhn <mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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Subject: Re: possible parsing problem with OSI-DS 23 (Distinguished Names)
To: Steve Hardcastle-Kille <S.Kille@isode.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 12:20:02 MET
Cc: philip@cgin.cto.citicorp.com, osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk
In-Reply-To: <9406.728772548@isode.com>; from "Steve Hardcastle-Kille" at Feb 3, 93 8:49 pm
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> "p.s. how are accented characters handled?"
> 
> The notation is character set independent, and so will support accents
> if written in an appropriate character set.   If accents are not
> supported, you default to hex, which will include the appropriate
> ASN.1 tagging.  
> 
> I'll add a note to this effect

How are 16-bit ISO 10646 characters handled in the hex notation?
ISO 10646 will be supported in X.500(92) and it should be theoretically
possible to enter Chinese and Cyrillic DNs on every ASCII terminal,
at least in hex notation.

Markus

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