In message <04337360-c1db-4f02-ab85-cb1d679fc...@dukhovni.org> on Sat, 2 Jun 
2018 14:27:42 -0400, Viktor Dukhovni <openssl-us...@dukhovni.org> said:

openssl-users> > (it would have been smarter to have the PKCS12 routines take 
wchar_t
openssl-users> > strings rather than char strings...  hindsight is what it 
is...)
openssl-users> 
openssl-users> No, wchar_t is not defined to be a 16-bit BMPString compatible
openssl-users> encoding.  It is AFAIK a platform-specific string representation
openssl-users> that is not canonical.

Yeah, I just learned that myself.  Somehow, I thought wchar_t would be
Unicode characters.  So ok, with this information, UTF-8 makes
sense...

Cheers,
Richard

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Richard Levitte         levi...@openssl.org
OpenSSL Project         http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/
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