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Re: Format of error text

At 05:53 PM 4/12/00 +0100, Christopher Williams wrote:

The specification states:

"-- text encoded as UTF-8 String [RFC2279] (note:  each UTF8String
  -- SHOULD include an RFC 1766 language tag to indicate the
  -- language of the contained text -- see [RFC2482] for details)"

Does this mean something like the following:

"<en-uk> Unexpected PKI message"?
The actual octets in the UTF-8 string would be:

f3a081a5 f3a081ae f3a080ad f3a081b5 f3a081ab 556e6578 ....................Unex
70656374 65642050 4b49206d 65737361 6765 pected PKI message

Having said this, I think that the SHOULD in the above section is probably overstated. I say this as someone who previously lobbied for language tagging. The general feeling about language tags these days is that they are only needed for machine processing, such as text-to-speech synthesizers and spelling checkers. It might be good if draft-ietf-pkix-rfc2510bis changed this from a SHOULD to a MAY.

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