Hi, > * User-Name in GUI: some cyrillic letters > * encoded on wire: all transcribed to the same symbol "?" in > ISO-8859-15 or similar encoding (which is not very helpful!) > > To get to the cyrillic letters, I installed multi-language support and > complex IMEs, i.e. everything I could find in System Settings, thinking > that it may help the system to move to UTF-8 encodings." > > [BA] What version of Windows was this? XP? Vista? >
Ah, sorry: XP SP3. > Stefan Winter said: > > "So... if for MS-CHAPv2, the behaviour for non-ASCII is unspecified, then > it's alright for it to transscribe unexpected input to whatever > character it likes. So not the supplicant is to blame, but rather the > fact of life that MS-CHAPv2 lives in an ASCII world. > > Hmmm... is an update to 2759 in any way feasible? Considering its > deployed base that appears difficult at best." > > [BA] I'm trying to understand why the ASCII limitation exists in the first > place. > Presumably there are security protocols out there that utilize UTF-8 encoded > usernames > or NAIs (perhaps after some normalization procedure), right? > I don't have any insight on the amount of use of non-ASCII NAIs. For eduroam I can say: no usage known, and from last week on I will heavily discourage anyone from deploying that until the situation gets better. Greetings, Stefan -- Stefan WINTER Ingenieur de Recherche Fondation RESTENA - Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi L-1359 Luxembourg Tel: +352 424409 1 Fax: +352 422473 _______________________________________________ Emu mailing list Emu@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/emu
