Re: X500Principal and UTF-16 encoded certificates

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.security
Subject	Re: X500Principal and UTF-16 encoded certificates
Date	2011-04-22 12:38 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:27:02 -0700 (PDT), Yosi Izaq
<izaqyos@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 at
http://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  It is so easy to use out of date information.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.

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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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