ASN.1 VisibleString tag: 26

The ASN.1 VisibleString type supports a subset of ASCII characters that does not include control characters.

Example

ISO646Sample ::= VisibleString
VisibleString encoding example
Name1 ::= VisibleString
firstName Name1 ::= "John"

In BER, the VisibleString type value defined in the example above is encoded as follows:

1A 04 4A6F686E

Constraints

The VisibleString type can be constrained by a single value, by size constraints, and by permitted alphabet constraints.

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