CharacterString

arbitrary-length sequence of characters, including accents and special characters from the repertoire of one of the adopted character sets: . ISO/IEC 10646: Universal Multi-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS), and . ISO 8859. Merknad: The maximum length of a CharacterString is dependent on encapsulation and usage. A language tag may be provided for identification of the language of string values. For an implementation mapping of a CharacterString, the handling of the following four aspects needs to be decided: 1) Representation of value, 2) Representation of character set, 3) Representation of encoding, and 4) Representation of language. This can be handled for instance by choosing ISO/IEC 10646.