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Re: Bug#412896: Error when trying to sign an e-mail: Problem with non-AS


From: Daiki Ueno
Subject: Re: Bug#412896: Error when trying to sign an e-mail: Problem with non-ASCII chars in passphrase
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:15:56 +0900

>>>>> In <address@hidden> 
>>>>>   Reiner Steib <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I have created a test gpg key and played with the passphrase, and one
> > that triggered the error was "MitPara§".  "MitDollar$", on the other
> > hand, worked fine.

> This problem has been discussed in March 2006:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62428/focus=62441
> (BTW, Frank I've Cc-ed you in this thread.)

It was later discussed on emacs-devel, and I believe it was fixed.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/63023/focus=63685

> I don't know if the patch (which was "not the right fix" according to
> Daiki) has been applied and what would be the right fix.  Should we
> simply document that non-ascii characters don't work / may cause
> problems?

Perhaps pgg-passphrase-coding-system should be set correctly?

(setq pgg-passphrase-coding-system 'iso-8859-1)

It once had taken the default value from locale-coding-system, but
Richard told me locale-coding-system should be only used for display.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno




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