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Diffstat (limited to 'src/encoding/asn1/asn1.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/encoding/asn1/asn1.go | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/encoding/asn1/asn1.go b/src/encoding/asn1/asn1.go index 7c260b49d9..f9b9cb4930 100644 --- a/src/encoding/asn1/asn1.go +++ b/src/encoding/asn1/asn1.go @@ -1067,6 +1067,15 @@ func setDefaultValue(v reflect.Value, params fieldParameters) (ok bool) { // set causes a SET, rather than a SEQUENCE type to be expected // tag:x specifies the ASN.1 tag number; implies ASN.1 CONTEXT SPECIFIC // +// When decoding an ASN.1 value with an IMPLICIT tag into a string field, +// Unmarshal will default to a PrintableString, which doesn't support +// characters such as '@' and '&'. To force other encodings, use the following +// tags: +// +// ia5 causes strings to be unmarshaled as ASN.1 IA5String values +// numeric causes strings to be unmarshaled as ASN.1 NumericString values +// utf8 causes strings to be unmarshaled as ASN.1 UTF8String values +// // If the type of the first field of a structure is RawContent then the raw // ASN1 contents of the struct will be stored in it. // |