Thanks Michael for the answers.

As I understand, there is no easy way for now to issue certificates with
international characters using OpenCA. 
That's bad news...
I'm not a programmer to change OpenCA code to work with OpenSSL 0.9.8.

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf 
> Of Michael Bell
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:36 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Openca-Users] DN fields with international letters
> 
> Hi Dmitrij,
> 
> Johnny described a similar problem. OpenCA uses the ASCII 
> encoding of OpenSSL for distinguished names. UTF-8 support is 
> a big todo for us. 
> OpenSSL 0.9.8 fully supports now UTF-8. OpenSSL 0.9.7 support 
> -utf8 at the req tool but not for the ca tool.
> 
> Dmitrij Mironov wrote:
> 
> > I want to ask about changing character set in DN fields. As 
> I see in 
> > pub.conf I have LATIN1_LETTERS by default.
> > 
> > DN_TYPE_BASIC_ELEMENT_2_CHARACTERSET   "LATIN1_LETTERS"
> 
> Please forget this. This is only a keyword for a regex which 
> scans the input for illegal characters. It has nothing to do 
> with a real encoding spec. I would propose the following:
> 
> 1. migrate CVS HEAD to OpenSSL 0.9.8
> 2. test how -utf8 integration works
> 3. check the HEAD for a way to backport this to 0.9.2
> 
> Any other ideas or proposals?
> 
> Sorry that there is no easy way
> 
> Michael
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