New ASN1_STRING_print_ex() and X509_NAME_print_ex()

functions. These are intended to be replacements
for the ancient ASN1_STRING_print() and X509_NAME_print()
functions.

The new functions support RFC2253 and various pretty
printing options. It is also possible to display
international characters if the terminal properly handles
UTF8 encoding (Linux seems to tolerate this if the
"unicode_start" script is run).

Still needs to be documented, integrated into other
utilities and extensively tested.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

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      BIO_dump_indent() are added.
      [Richard Levitte]
 
+  *) New functions ASN1_STRING_print_ex() and X509_NAME_print_ex()
+     these print out strings and name structures based on various
+     flags including RFC2253 support and proper handling of
+     multibyte characters. Added options to the 'x509' utility 
+     to allow the various flags to be set.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
   *) Various fixes to use ASN1_TIME instead of ASN1_UTCTIME.
      Also change the functions X509_cmp_current_time() and
      X509_gmtime_adj() work with an ASN1_TIME structure,