gpg2 display charset detection broken?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Jan 16 19:05:07 CET 2009


Werner Koch wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:26, rdieter at math.unl.edu said:
> 
>> See downstream bug:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471559
>                                                                             
>   The reason seems to be that gpg.c calls init_common_subsystems()
>   before initializing the locale via i18n_init() or a setlocale()
>   call. Therefore detects as ANSI_X3.4-1968 (i.e us-ascii) and uses
>   iso-8859-1 as fallback.
> 
> This should be fixed in 2.0.10:
> 2008-12-09  Werner Koch  <wk at g10code.com>
> * gpg.c (main): Call i18n_init before init_common_subsystems.

Dang, sorry, my casual perusal of the 2.0.10 changelog was clearly 
insufficient.  

-- Rex





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