Re: T.61 -> Unicode conversion

[Steven Legg <steven.legg@eb2bcom.com>]

Hallvard,

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> > The URL Howard posted:
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/openca-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04365.html
> >
> > recommends to use T.61 in some circumstances, but concludes with "In
> > 2004, you can switch to UTF-8 strings and forget about this entire
> > section of the guide."  So maybe it's still in use but fading fast?
>
>
> Note, that's from an X.509 certificate guide, not a general X.500 guide.

Also, worth noting - X.500 uses TeletexString, ASN.1 refers to ISO/IEC 2022,
ISO/IEC 2375 and the "ISO International Register of Coded Characters Sets"
for the BER encoding of TeletexString values. It doesn't depend on T.61.

P.S. I would like to stop using TeletexString, but there are X.500 servers
out there that barf if I try to use the uTF8String alternative of DirectoryString.

Regards,
Steven