Kerberos V5 supported Character Set

[Jeffrey Altman]

Sasi Praveen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is Praveen. I’m trying to configure my application with Kerberos V5.
> The application I’m using is installed in French Windows 2003 server and I’m
> trying to issue a ticket for a French user name (éîôf) .But I’m getting an
> error message saying that “Client not found in Kerberos database while
> getting initial credentials”. So can you please tell me if Kerberos supports
> Single-Byte character set. Also multi-byte character set.
> 
> It would be a great help for me if somebody could answer this question.

Please see section 5.2.1 KerberosString of "Kerberos V5" (RFC 4120)

  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4120.txt

Only characters that can be represented by US-ASCII are guaranteed to
be interoperable.

Jeffrey Altman