On Wed, Apr 28, 2010, Phillip Hellewell wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Luis Neves <luisne...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > As I think they are in DER format so I use > > openssl x509 -inform DER -in xxxxxx.cer -noout -text > > I was able to get it to output the characters correctly by adding > "-nameopt multiline,utf8,-esc_msb" to the command-line. > > It makes me wonder though why isn't UTF-8 the default output on a > Linux system with LANG set to "en_US.UTF-8"? >
Backwards compatibility reasons mainly. We have to be very careful changing defaults as it can (and has) broken a lot of stuff in the past relying on existing behaviour. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
