On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:24:46PM +0100, Matteo Cazzador wrote:
> Victor Duchovni ha scritto:
> >On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:57:34PM +0100, Matteo Cazzador wrote:
> >
> >
> >>is it possible to use charset like croatian or russian in the
> >>common name field to generate a /pkcs12/ certificate?
> >>
> >
> >Yes, you can use UTF8, which includes Russian and Croatian characters.
> >
> >
> >>charset like iso-8859-2, windows-1250 so non standard ascii charset.
> >>And if is it possible how i can do it?
> >>
> >
> >You can't use language-specific encodings, you can only use ASCII or UTF8,
> >or in some cases T61 (similar to iso-8859-1) is also usable.
> >
> >
> thank's a lot , excuse me for my insistence and my orrible english,
> so i can only use utf8 encoding common name for est people?.
> I must generate psk12 for croatian people
> that send me particular charset (surname and name) and in must put it
> in cn for p12 creation.
> For me the charset problematic is relative because i come from italy
> and i use iso-8859-15.
> So is the first time i try to solve it.
> Ultimate consideration, if i use utf8, who use his p12 certificate, see
> correct charset ?
Correctly implemented certificate parsers will display UTF8 encodings to
the user in a way that the user can understand. The code-points are logically
the same regardless of the encoding. UTF-8 is the only non Latin encoding
supported with X.509 DirectoryNames (e.g. CN).
--
Viktor.
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