On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:46:20PM +0100, Matteo Cazzador wrote:

> >Correctly implemented certificate parsers will display UTF8 encodings to
> >the user in a way that the user can understand. The code-points are 
> >logically
> >the same regardless of the encoding. UTF-8 is the only non Latin encoding
> >supported with X.509 DirectoryNames (e.g. CN).
>
> It's clear Thank's a lot !

One final subtle point, the software that creates the certificate has
to ensure that the DirectoryString is labeled as UTF8 String. And I
neglected to mention that you can also use Unicode.

-- 
        Viktor.
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