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diff --git a/doc/manual/x509.rst b/doc/manual/x509.rst index 72a7b32b7..1fb6d90f5 100644 --- a/doc/manual/x509.rst +++ b/doc/manual/x509.rst @@ -79,19 +79,6 @@ associated with a position of some sort in the organization. It may also include fields for state/province and locality. What a locality is, nobody knows, but it's usually given as a city name. -Botan doesn't currently support any of the Unicode variants used in -ASN.1 (UTF-8, UCS-2, and UCS-4), any of which could be used for the -fields in the DN. This could be problematic, particularly in Asia and -other areas where non-ASCII characters are needed for most names. The -UTF-8 and UCS-2 string types *are* accepted (in fact, UTF-8 is used -when encoding much of the time), but if any of the characters included -in the string are not in ISO 8859-1 (ie 0 ... 255), an exception will -get thrown. Currently the ``ASN1_String`` type holds its data as ISO -8859-1 internally (regardless of local character set); this would have -to be changed to hold UCS-2 or UCS-4 in order to support Unicode -(also, many interfaces in the X.509 code would have to accept or -return a ``std::wstring`` instead of a ``std::string``). - Like the distinguished names, subject alternative names can contain a lot of things that Botan will flat out ignore (most of which you would likely never want to use). However, there are three very useful pieces of information that |