On 3/12/12 6:00 PM, "Sam Hartman" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Scott, thanks for the proposed text regarding name attributes.

<swapping back in...>

>In your original text you proposed to mandate that the display form of
>SAML attributes should be UTF-8 encoded. I agree that's reasonable for
>the raw form but I'm not actually sure that we should standardize that
>for the display form.

I'm working with an absence of understanding of exactly how the display
form would be used, but my experience with XML data in general is that
sticking with UTF-8 where possible tends to keep things simpler, since an
application can always do whatever converting it wants to from that
baseline.

But in a related question, wouldn't it be bad to have different name
attributes expressing themselves in either raw or display form with
different encodings? How would the application know what the encoding was
meant to be in each case?

-- Scott

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