Re: Empty IA5String

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
> I assume what you mean here is that you are increasing
> believing that LDAPprep should be redesigned to accept
> as input an zero-length string and output a zero-length
> string for this input.
> 
> This would require a major redesign of the algorithm.

Why?  Just put the zero-length shortcut you gave at the top of
stringprep algorithm instead of in the matching rule(s) which uses it:

>         For zero-length input strings, no preparation
>         is done.  The input string is used directly.

-- 
Hallvard