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Re: X500Principal and UTF-16 encoded certificates

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On Apr 22, 10:38 pm, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:27:02 -0700 (PDT), Yosi Izaq
> <izaq...@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
> said :
>
> >Is there any specific reason why
> >X500Principal:getName(X500Principal.RFC2253) may be preferable to
> >X500Principal:getName(X500Principal.RFC1779)?
>
> I think RFC1779 only applies to ASCII.  Even 16-bit Unicode was a new
> fangled idea when it was released. C with its 8-bit chars was still
> king.
>
> RFC-2253 formally obsoletes RFC-1779.  
>
> RFC-2253 explicitly states in its title it is for UTF-8 only.
>
> RFC-2253 in turn was obsoleted by RFC-4510, RFC-4514 and was updated
> by RFC 3373.
>
> You can discover this by chasing the links athttp://mindprod.com/jgloss/rfc.html
>
> I wish RFCs would in the header report the obsoletes/obsoleted-by
> information.  It is so easy to use out of date information. Perhaps
> someone might even edit them to create a unified document set with all
> obsolete information removed, or at least partially grayed out.
>
> --
> Roedy Green Canadian Mind Productshttp://mindprod.com
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It would seem as though X500Principal supports an obsolete version of
RFC :(
Any chance it got updated in a recent Java version?
Googling for that seems to suggest a negative answer, although it does
look that openLDAP SDK got updated.

Thanks!
Yosi

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X500Principal and UTF-16 encoded certificates Yosi Izaq <izaqyos@gmail.com> - 2011-04-21 06:22 -0700
  Re: X500Principal and UTF-16 encoded certificates Yosi Izaq <izaqyos@gmail.com> - 2011-04-21 08:27 -0700
    Re: X500Principal and UTF-16 encoded certificates Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-04-22 17:35 +0200
      Re: X500Principal and UTF-16 encoded certificates Yosi Izaq <izaqyos@gmail.com> - 2011-04-24 02:21 -0700
    Re: X500Principal and UTF-16 encoded certificates Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-04-22 12:38 -0700
      Re: X500Principal and UTF-16 encoded certificates Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2011-04-23 01:09 +0300
        Re: X500Principal and UTF-16 encoded certificates Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-04-24 11:54 -0700
          Re: X500Principal and UTF-16 encoded certificates Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-04-24 21:32 +0200
            Re: X500Principal and UTF-16 encoded certificates Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-04-25 17:23 -0700
      Re: X500Principal and UTF-16 encoded certificates Yosi Izaq <izaqyos@gmail.com> - 2011-04-24 02:32 -0700

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