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In order to meet the CA/B guidelines, it is essential that all location information is correctly entered in certificate fields.  We recommend ONLY completing the Locality and Country information where possible - the more information entered, the more likelihood there is that something will go wrong.  Certificates may be revoked for something as small as the different between Noord Holland and Noord-Holland in the State field.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2 is generally used a guide to the correct way to add information, but may not be completely consistent with official local sources given the nature of wikipedia.  The most common problem is with incorrect use of State - we recommend not filling this in wherever possible.  If this field is populated, please make sure it matches the ISO guidelines as described in the "sub-divisons" column in the cited wikipedia page.  Do not abbreviate names (N-Holland is not allowed), or add excess data.

Q: How do I deal with non-

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ASCII characters for IGTF certificates?

IGTF certificates must not  contain non-ACII ASCII characters.  There are several ways to manage this:

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