gnupg 1.2.1&1.3.1 - BAD output with --with-colons --list-keys for russian uid, not equal --charset utf8 --list-keys

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:53:00 +0300, Sekretnii Yenot said:

> (Examples: kmail and kgpg.)  These programs are all written with
> libraries that love raw UTF-8, but GPG is forcing these developers
> to hand code an extra level of nonstandard decoding.  (Actually, it's

You mean the escaping of certain characters.  This is required because
you must do this for the delimters (colon and linefeed) and so the
de-escaping is anyway required.  The escaping is straightforward and
can be done in place; see gpgme/gpgme/conversion.c for an example.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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