In message <[email protected]> on Tue, 5 Jun 2018 18:37:21 -0400, Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]> said:
openssl-users> openssl-users> openssl-users> > On Jun 3, 2018, at 4:45 AM, Richard Levitte <[email protected]> wrote: openssl-users> > openssl-users> > Yeah, I just learned that myself. Somehow, I thought wchar_t would be openssl-users> > Unicode characters. So ok, with this information, UTF-8 makes openssl-users> > sense... openssl-users> openssl-users> Nico has convinced me that the mapping from UTF-8 to BMPString should openssl-users> be UTF-16, which is agrees with the BMP representation on the code openssl-users> points in the Basic Multinational Plane, but also supports surrogate openssl-users> pairs for code points outside the plane, so that if someone wanted openssl-users> to use "emoji" (or more traditional glyph outside the BMP) for their openssl-users> password, they could. This is a strict superset of UCS-2 and avoids openssl-users> having to reject some UTF-8 codepoints. Yup. It seems that BMPString evolved from UCS-2 into UTF-16 at some point, and that evolution affected PKCS#12 objects... Cheers, Richard -- Richard Levitte [email protected] OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/ _______________________________________________ openssl-project mailing list [email protected] https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-project
