Creating user id's with International Characters

Marc Mutz mutz@kde.org
Sun Mar 31 13:36:02 2002


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On Sunday 31 March 2002 01:30, Oliver Sch=F6nrock wrote:
<snip>
> and look how it displays on the keyserver
> (http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/pgp/):
>
> Type bits/keyID    Date       User ID
> pub  1024/7B4425EF 2002/03/30 Oliver Sch=C2?nrock <oliver@schonrocks.co=
m>
>           Key fingerprint =3D  47 A7 A0 2C 37 BB 09 00  62 2D AC 41 0A =
BC EC
> EB  7B 44 25 EF
>
> nice Umlaut huh?
>
> BTW Ingo, your key looks similar:
>
> Type bits/keyID    Date       User ID
> pub  1024/30E0B9D8 2000/10/16 Ingo Kl=C3=B6cker <ingo.kloecker@epost.de=
>
>           Key fingerprint =3D  71 2A 09 10 32 1A C7 62  D4 80 54 08 1A =
74 7E
> 45  30 E0 B9 D8
>                               Ingo H. Kl=C3=B6cker <ingo.kloecker@web.d=
e>
>                               Ingo H. Kl=C3=B6cker <ingo.kloecker@arcor=
mail.de>
>                               Ingo H. Kl=C3=B6cker
> <ingo.kloecker@matha.rwth-aachen.de>
>
> Only question I have is why is your O-Umlaut different to mine?

Because Ingo's umlaut is valid UTF-8 and your's is not ;-(
Did you possibly use gpa-0.5 to create the key?

> So is this just a Keyserver/HTML/Char set during diapay issue? Is my ke=
y
> actually properly encoded?
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If you force your browser to UTF-8, it should display the umlaut correctl=
y.=20
But your key's id isn't properly encoded, sorry.

Marc

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Marc Mutz <mutz@kde.org>
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