Re: question on valid characters for serial numbers

2013-02-07 Thread Oliver Neukum
On Thursday 07 February 2013 09:54:05 Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a question interpreting the specs.The bulk only storage spec > > clearly states that serial numbers shall contain only 0-9 and A-F. > > The USB spec says that serial number

Re: question on valid characters for serial numbers

2013-02-07 Thread Alan Stern
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question interpreting the specs.The bulk only storage spec > clearly states that serial numbers shall contain only 0-9 and A-F. > The USB spec says that serial numbers shall be Unicode strings. > > Is that to be read so that for storag

question on valid characters for serial numbers

2013-02-07 Thread Oliver Neukum
Hi, I have a question interpreting the specs.The bulk only storage spec clearly states that serial numbers shall contain only 0-9 and A-F. The USB spec says that serial numbers shall be Unicode strings. Is that to be read so that for storage devices requirements are stricter or is that just an o