How do you list keys in UTF-8?

Ingo Kloecker ingo@mathA.rwth-aachen.de
Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:42:38 +0100


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On Tuesday, 28. November 2000 18:48, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Ingo Kloecker wrote:
> > Except that colons, ':', in the user ID are printed as "\x3a". Why?
> > Sure, the colon is the separator but the user ID is the last entry.
>
> Today it is the last entry, but this may change.
O.K.. I already found this out while reading the DETAILS.
> You should
> interpret all those strings a C Strings: \n,\r,\v,\t,\0,\\,\xnn.
I just had a look at print_string() in miscutil.c. The following special characters are escaped: \n, \r, \f, \v, \b, \0 And the delimiter is escaped as \xXX, where XX is the delimiters hex code. The problem is that the backslash '\' is not escaped as '\\'. This can lead to ambiguities. Also \t should be escaped.
> I know that it might be easier to have %nn escaping but as C-head I
> don't think long about how to escape things ;-)
Or you could escape all characters between \x00 and \x1f and additionally the delimiter and the backslash as \xXX. This way you still have it done the C-way, there are no ambiguities and it is very easy to parse. Moreover all programs which use such strings as input and which already interpret \x3a correctly as character with hex code 0x3a should still work with the new escaping method. Regards, Ingo - -- Ingo Klöcker Lehrstuhl A für Mathematik RWTH Aachen 52056 Aachen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6JMGCqUQWN/hplRsRAvYzAKDY6rrlEcO4EFFmS6MzmDEPow1hYgCfZARP MqmfCjhok1dG0mZDgbgmM9E= =x8PW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Archive is at http://lists.gnupg.org - Unsubscribe by sending mail with a subject of "unsubscribe" to gnupg-users-request@gnupg.org