accented characters in real name in generating key

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:51:03 +0200, René Clerc said:

> René Clerc

That is the UTF-8 encoding of é.  UTF-8 is the standard encoding for
all newer Internet protocols and it has huge advantages over a single
byte encode.  You probably heard about Unicode - utf-8 is a way to
encode the 4 byte wide Unicode characters in the  most compatible way
for applications.  Except for sorting functions, only the input and
output functions of an OS need to cope with it. Sadly most OS do not
support utf-8 very well, so GnuPG has the charset option to do the
conversion internally in GnuPG.

Most keyservers are not really aware of OpenPGP and use the old PGP 2
way where the character encoding is not specified.

> Or should I change some TERM setting or so? (mine is 'screen' right
> now)...

GnuPG should display it correctly if you did set charset to the one
used on your box (probably iso-8859-1).

> Or should I just change my name? (sigh...)

Better keep your name or you may run into problems with the
authorities :-).  Except that utf-8 will be the standard encoding on
most boxes in the near future.

  Werner

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