Re: Bug#412896: Error when trying to sign an e-mail: Problem with non-ASCII chars in passphrase

[Frank Küster]

Daiki Ueno <address@hidden> wrote:

>>>>>> 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.)

Sorry, too long ago to remember it...

> 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.

Thank you, that setting helped.  I'm only wondering whether sooner or
later it needs to be changed to utf-8?

Regards, Frank
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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
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