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UTF-8 bug in gpa

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martin.norback at safelogic

Mar 21, 2002, 2:46 PM

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UTF-8 bug in gpa

GPA doesn't take into account the fact that user names are supposed to
be in UTF-8 format.

Since gpg uses UTF-8, user names produced using the gpg text interface
will look strange in the gpa gui.

More seriously, user names produced by the gui will not be valid UTF-8,
and will therefore be illegal.

The fix is to convert from UTF-8 to the system charset when displaying
names (perhaps display a ? if conversion is impossible), and to convert
from the system charset to UTF-8 when generating new keys (should always
be possible).

Regards

Martin

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wk at gnupg

Mar 21, 2002, 4:24 PM

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Re: UTF-8 bug in gpa [In reply to]

On 21 Mar 2002 14:44:13 +0100, Martin Norbäck said:

> More seriously, user names produced by the gui will not be valid UTF-8,
> and will therefore be illegal.

Oh dear, this will cause us a lot of grief especially now that a lot
of CeBIT visitors got the CD. Many European users will run into this
trap. Hopefully a new version can be released ASAP so that not too
many bad keys get into use.

BTW, PGP has the same problem.

Thanks for reporting,

Werner

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