Re: [xacml] [CR#37] Add normalized-string-match function

On 10 September, Polar Humenn writes: Re: [xacml] [CR#37] Add normalized-string-match function >
> Define string-equal as 'the two arguments, when compared >
> byte-by-byte using "integer-equal", exactly match'. >
> Is that byte-by-byte the way it appears in the XML documents? What would
> that mean if the Policy was in ASCII and the RequestContext is in Unicode? From http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html: UTF-8 is an ASCII-preserving encoding method for Unicode (ISO 10646), the Universal Character Set (UCS). The UCS encodes most of the world's writing systems in a single character set, allowing you to mix languages and scripts within a document without needing any tricks for switching character sets. This web page is encoded directly in UTF-8. So, if I understand correctly, since we specify UTF8 as our encoding, a RequestContext in Unicode and a Policy in ASCII will compare nicely. Anne

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