Comment by themafia

> Nope, TeletexString is ITU T.61

Yes, read the standard, it's ASCII with special escape sequences. Which I don't have to render, I only have to convey them correctly across the network.

> What, your implementation does not include CP1036 to Unicode translation table? Sorry, it's no longer ASN.1, it's now ASN.themafia.

Why would I need the table?

> Oh, it does? Then how about xmlhstring vs hstring, are you handing difference properly?

What exactly needs to be "handled?"

> Does your asn.1 library include support for arbitrary-precision floating point numbers

Yes, because there are third party libraries which supply this functionality, so it's hardly any special effort to implement.

> ancient things like those

So no one ever needs arbitrary precision integers? You'll eventually need them for some application. Now all you have is ad-hoc implementations and almost no software to interoperate with them or verify them.

> If you want something that people actually implement fully, choose something else.

Name anything else with the same features yet is easier to implement "fully." Seriously, go read the JSON Schema specification. This is a _hard_ problem. If you think you've found an easy solution it's likely you've just left most of the functionality on the floor. And now we have to ask "is software X compatible with software Y?" Obviating the entire point of a standard.