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Re: Empty IA5String

At 09:57 AM 11/9/2004, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>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:".) 

No more than "".  In either case, you attaching additional
semantics on to values.