Thus spake Robert Joop: > the explanation of the -utf8 option doesn't make sense, does it? > > <quote src="http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/req.html";> > -utf8 > > this option causes field values to be interpreted as UTF8 strings, by default >they are interpreted as ASCII. This means that the field values, whether prompted >from a terminal or obtained from a configuration file, must be valid UTF8 strings. > <quote> > > ASCII is a proper subset of UTF-8, rendering the -utf8 totally > superfluous? > > i guess what is meant is ISO 8859-1 instead of ASCII?
I think the document means "8-bit characters in an unspecified code page" instead of ASCII; however, there's no short term for that. > (ISO 8859-1 and UTF-8 are conflicting encodings, whereas ASCII and UTF-8 > are not.) Here's the more interesting question: why do we have a switch for UTF-8 encoding, instead of determining it from the user's locale? S -- Stephen Sprunk "So long as they don't get violent, I want to CCIE #3723 let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have K5SSS always said exactly what pleased me." --Albert Einstein ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
