Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Cantor" <>]

Alright, as usual when Java's involved, I'm wrong, get a headache, and end up 
feeling dumber than when I started, so I'll just shut up.

For the record, I don't necessarily think that the lower level libraries 
should be required to rely on UTF-8. I do much the same thing, but always 
considered that a flaw.

Ideally, it's configurable, but mainly I think it's important that the 
surrounding locale shouldn't influence the process if that's possible. If the 
code knows it needs to handle data using a particular encoding, it should 
probably be explicit about it and not rely on the Java locale to be set 
correctly.

The SP never relies on localized functions if it knows data has to be handled 
as Unicode.

-- Scott