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Language cleaned up by the technical writers xsipewe and tmanevik
from Combitech. Proofreading and corrections by Björn Gustavsson.
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When talking about the ASN.1 standard, ASN.1 specifications, and
the ASN.1 compiler, consistently use "ASN.1" instead of "asn1".
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The trailing bytes returned are now always a binary. Also condense
and clean up the language.
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REAL is implemented, sort of. But real numbers must be given in
a string.
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While "extendability" (without the hyphen) is an English word,
"extensibility" is the established term used when talking about
the extensibility of ASN.1 types.
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The section about encoding rules serves no useful purpose. Most users
already know which encoding rule to use for their specifications. The
few users that have their own specification and need to decide on
which encoding rule to use will need much more information.
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Since 1994 when the AUTOMATIC TAGS was introduced, ASN.1 users
no long need to worry about tagging, and the following sentence
no longer makes any sense:
It is essential for all users of ASN.1 to
understand all the details about tags.
Therefore, remove the entire existing section of tags, and replace
it with a shorter section explaining why we no longer need to know
about tags. Remove all tags from the examples.
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Since the SET type is used exactly the same way as the SEQUENCE
type in Erlang, we can simply say so and note that decoding will
be less efficient for the BER and DER encoding rules.
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It turns out that the current BER back-end can recognize complex
DEFAULT values, so I had to commit up with a more elaborate
example to show a difference between the BER and DER back-ends.
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The decode functions now return a binary, not an iolist, so we must
both change the output and remove the call to list_to_binary when
decoding.
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Replace "IMPLICIT TAGS" with "AUTOMATIC TAGS" since AUTOMATIC TAGS
is recommended for all new ASN.1 specifications.
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We can assume that anyone that reads the documentation for the Asn1
documentation already knows about ASN.1, so we don't need three
paragraphs of introductory. Keep one short paragraph explaining
what ASN.1 is in case a reader unfamiliar with ASN.1 stumbles upon
the manual.
While we are at it, reformat the paragraphs in Introduction to
shorter lines that don't wrap.
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Add the option 'legacy_bit_string' to decode to the old list format.
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The 'keyed_list' was only supported for the 'ber' and 'ber_bin'
backends and has been undocumented for a long time. Also remove
the note in the documentation about the feature.
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Othe minor corrections as well.
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