Signing & the "-" character

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Saturday 05 July 2003 11:07, Abhay S. Kushwaha wrote:
> Whenever I sign an email message, any sentence starting with the dash
> character "-" gets an additional "- " prepended. So a sentence that
> is
>
> ---- There are 4 - here
>
> becomes
>
> - ---- There are 4 - here
>
> once the signing is done. This apparently also only happens in the
> case when I sign 'inline' or sign the contents of the clipboard.
>
[snip]
> 3. Can this be avoided? If so, how?

Yes, with the --not-dash-escaped option. But please see man gpg for more=20
information.

Regards,
Ingo


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