RE: Re[2]: DN Encoding by UTF8String

["Blake Ramsdell" <blake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ietf-pkix@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-ietf-pkix@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Gutmann
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 1:53 AM
> To: harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; shimaoka@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx; ietf-pkix@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: DN Encoding by UTF8String
> 
> What we'd really need here is an indication from vendors of 
> how far UTF-8
> support goes (or doesn't go) in their products, to determine 
> whether it's safe
> to switch it on yet.  The most important one would be 
> Microsoft I guess.  I'll
> start the ball rolling by saying that any version of cryptlib 
> that handles
> certs will process UTF-8, although none will produce it (at 
> least in a DN) for
> the reason given above.
> 
> Anyone else?

My understanding is that J2SE 1.4.2 supports it. Not sure about earlier
versions.

Blake