Character set problems

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Wed Jun 13 12:53:01 2001


Hi!

2 suggestions to your proposed FAQ entry:

 || On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:42:13 +0200 (MET DST)
 || Magnus B{ckstr|m <b@etek.chalmers.se> wrote: 

 mb>         GnuPG encodes user id strings (and other things) using
 mb>         UTF-8.

"According to OpenPGP[ and general IETF rules], GnuPG encodes ..."

 mb>         In this encoding, most national characters get encoded as

Most folks don't know what UTF-8 is but they have heard about Unicode,
so I suggest to add this:

"... in this encoding of Unicode, most ..."



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