Hi Sergei,
Hi Til,

understood. Thx for the info, but I am Still confused. So u r telling me
i should use utf-8 instead of latin1?
If it works, ok, I thought latin1 would be my horse.

Greets
Jan Roesner
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Sergei Vyshenski wrote:

>
>
> Jan Roesner wrote:
>
>> Hi Listusers,
>>
>> I went stuck on a "problem" that concerns special german characters.
>> Usually these are covored by the charakterset latin1 iso-8859-1. 
>
>
> Not correct. In OpenCA "latin1" and "first half of ASCII" are synonyms.
> Using special german characters is only possible with full UTF8 support.
> Feeding special german characters (with LATIN1 setup) to your input
> leads to unpredictable results in any versions prior to OpenCA
> 0.9.2.5, where (among other things) the behavior of IE was fixed.
>
> So anyway your bet is the use of 0.9.2.5 with UTF8 setup.
>
> Sergei
>
>
> Since
>
>> I'd like to create certificates containing characters like these I put
>> the following lines in /home/of/openca/etc/config.xml :
>>
>> snip ...
>>   <name>cert_chars</name>
>>             <value>LATIN1</value>
>> snap ...
>>
>> When I create a CSR using Firefox, it works very well. The CSR itself,
>> the data in the tables certificate and request are really stored in
>> latin1 format and even the distributed certificate contains the right
>> characters.
>>
>> The Problem occurs, when I create a CSR using M$ Internet Explorer. Then
>> the request data in SQL and the resulting certificate seem to contain
>> the Characters in utf-8 format. I dont understand that. Everything is
>> fine with my SQL database, OpenCA should be well configured.
>>
>> But I need that functionality not only for goodlooking certificates (in
>> lartin1) but also for sucessful running of own SQL querys that dont work
>> because of the misformatted characters.
>>
>> Am I doing something nasty? Did i forget something?
>> Any hints, suggestions, ideas, links?
>>
>> Thx in advance
>> Jan Roesner
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
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