Is there a list of characters allowed to define a principal name and realm?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:38:47 -0400, Ken Raeburn wrote:

> For portability, I think the right answer is "if you use anything outside
> of US-ASCII minus control characters, you're likely to hurt yourself or
> your users", and RFC 4120's specifications and recommendations are based
> on that.  We intend to move to UTF-8 in the future, but the wire encoding
> will be different from the current one.

As far as I know Windows 2K3 already accepts utf8 characters in their
strings. None of the MIT krb5 libraries does any multibyte handling which
means that utf8 passes through them relatively cleanly (I've used this
in the Samba code to allow utf8 logon names to be used within Samba+krb5).

Jeremy.