gnupg-1.0.2 patch: LC_CTYPE needs to be imported

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:

> Where UTF-8 is specified for data that is transmitted between
> machines, on a modern system you should be able to convert between
> UTF-8 and the locale charset using iconv, and find out what the locale
> charset is using nl_langinfo(CODESET).

Quite some time ago, Thomas Roesler told me that there is no portable
way to query the locale charset.  It seems that this has changed and
in every case we can do an autoconf check for nl_langinfo and check
whether the iconv implemenation regarding UTF-8 is "secure", meaning
not to allow overlong UTF-8 encodings to give a different encoding for
the standard ASCII characters like LF or BS.

> If case you don't have iconv you can include your own simple version
> of it. You might do nothing, or replace non-ascii chars by '?', or

BTW, do you know what happens in glibc's iconv when an invalid
sequence etc. is encountered?  I assume you get one of the error codes
back and then you have to output ? or C-qouted characters.

Well, I think it is time to change GnuPGs simple UTF8 conversion to
an iconv() based one.

> Is there a separate development branch of GnuPG, or is development
> happening on the same branch as gnupg-1.0.2?

GnuPG 1.1 (CVS head) has been merged with the stable branch and
development should happen there.

  Werner


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