b> attributes of the <b>X509</b> structure.</p>

<p>The parameter <b>pass</b> is interpreted as a string in the UTF-8 encoding. If it is not valid UTF-8, then it is assumed to be ISO8859-1 instead.</p>

<p>In particular, this means that passwords in the locale character set (or code page on Windows) must potentially be converted to UTF-8 before use. This may include passwords from local text files, or input from the terminal or command line. Refer to the documentation of <a href="../man3/UI_OpenSSL.html">UI