Comment by morshu9001
Comment by morshu9001 16 hours ago
Oh gosh. Fair enough that this exists and something uses it, but I'd absolutely want to handle that on the ends only, not get asn1 involved in parsing it.
Comment by morshu9001 16 hours ago
Oh gosh. Fair enough that this exists and something uses it, but I'd absolutely want to handle that on the ends only, not get asn1 involved in parsing it.
Oh GeneralString is madness. It's pre-Unicode madness. It exists because Unicode didn't exist in 1984, but people still wanted to be able to exchange text in multiple scripts, which necessitated being able to "switch codesets" in the middle. It's... yeah, it's.. it's nuts. I've _not_ implemented GeneralString, and practically no one needs to even when specs say to. E.g., in Kerberos the strings are GeneralString, but all the implementations just-send-8 and do not attempt to interpret any codeset switching escapes.