code: public String getString() throws IOException {
  
          String encoding;
  
          switch (type) {
  
          // Not all are Latin-1 but it's the closest thing
          case DerParser.NUMERIC_STRING:
          case DerParser.PRINTABLE_STRING:
          case DerParser.VIDEOTEX_STRING:
          case DerParser.IA5_STRING:
          case DerParser.GRAPHIC_STRING:
          case DerParser.ISO646_STRING:
          case DerParser.GENERAL_STRING:
              encoding = "ISO-8859-1"; //$NON-NLS-1$
              break;
  
          case DerParser.BMP_STRING:
              encoding = "UTF-16BE"; //$NON-NLS-1$
              break;
  
          case DerParser.UTF8_STRING:
              encoding = "UTF-8"; //$NON-NLS-1$
              break;
  
          case DerParser.UNIVERSAL_STRING:
              throw new IOException("Invalid DER: can't handle UCS-4 string"); //$NON-NLS-1$
  
          default:
              throw new IOException("Invalid DER: object is not a string"); //$NON-NLS-1$
          }
  
          return new String(value, encoding);
      }
docs: Get value as string. Most strings are treated
  as Latin-1.
  
  @return Java string
  @throws IOException