[ ] ^ Incompatibility Network Associates PGP 7.1.2 vs. GnuPG 1.2. 1

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Wed Mar 19 09:30:01 2003


On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:36:24 -0600, Walsh, Andrew J said:

> It appears that there are 3 characters that are being translated improperly
> between GnuPG and PGP:

> [ ] ^

This smells like a different character set used to display the text.
IIRC, ISO-646 defines this characters to be replacable by national
characters.  A long long time ago, program listings printed on German
line printers showed up funny:

 arrayäiü = 0;

instead of

 array[i] = 0;

GnuPG does not change the data encrypted or signed except when using
textmode (-t) which does a lineend character mapping, similar to FTP
ascii mode.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner