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title: IA5 String
description: Values of this syntax hold strings of zero or more characters from International Alphabet 5 (IA5), the international version of the ASCII character set. The set is defined in International Reference Alphabet (IRA) (Formerly International Alphabet No. 5 or IA5) Information Technology - 7-Bit Coded Character Set for Information Interchange, ITU-T Recommendation T.50.
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# IA5 String

Values of this syntax hold strings of zero or more characters from International Alphabet 5 (IA5), the international version of the ASCII character set. The set is defined in *International Reference Alphabet (IRA) (Formerly International Alphabet No. 5 or IA5) Information Technology - 7-Bit Coded Character Set for Information Interchange*, ITU-T Recommendation T.50.

The syntax follows this ABNF:

```
IA5String = *(%x00-7F)
```

The syntax corresponds to the `IA5String` ASN.1 type.

|               |                                                           |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| *OID*         | 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26                             |
| *Description* | IA5 String                                                |
| *Origin*      | [RFC 4517](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4517) |