Bug: 1.0.5: High-ASCII characters in user IDs not properly displayed

[Janusz A. Urbanowicz]

Thomas Gebhardt wrote/napisał[a]:
> Hi,
> 
> > |5.11. User ID Packet (Tag 13)
> > |
> > |   A User ID packet consists of data that is intended to represent
> > |   the name and email address of the key holder.  By convention, it
> > |   includes an RFC 822 mail name, but there are no restrictions on
> > |   its content. The packet length in the header specifies the length
> > |   of the user id. If it is text, it is encoded in UTF-8.
> > 
> > The question is whether NAI thinks a user ID with email address is
> > text or not ;-)
> 
> You're right, of course.
> 
> Nevertheless, there are so many keys with iso-latin-x encoded
> User IDs floating around. Shouldn't it be possible to import
> these keys into gnupg, converting the User ID into UTF-8?

This involves tharshing all the signatures on given user-id.

From my observation NAI PGP stores the iso characters in binary form without
any conversion, thus thrashing them wildly.

Alex
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