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Re: Empty IA5String

Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
>At 09:28 AM 11/9/2004, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>>
>>I can give you what might have become a real-world example at our site
>>if Directory Strings could be zero-length:  A 'vacation message'
>>attribute which the mail system would check.  If the attribute was
>>present, the mail system would send a vacation message in response to
>>incoming messages, with a standard initial text + the optional
>>user-supplied message.
> 
> Use an " " to indicate no user-supplied message...

We could have, but it's a hack.  And it would complicate things a bit
if the software were to be upgraded to give a different standard message
depending on whether or not there is a user-supplied message.
(It says something about "here is a message from the user:".)

-- 
Hallvard