localisations and charsets

[Michael Nahrath]

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On macgpg-users@ I have been told that this is not a Mac issue and was asked
to repost my message here.

Some explanations for those who don't know MacOS X:

"Terminal.app" is the standard terminal application - like "xterm" in X11.
"PGPPreferences" is a Mac GUI application to edit the ./gnupg/gpg.conf file.
"BBEdit" is a commercial text editor.

I tried to doublecheck in Debian-Linux but unfortunately the installations I
have access to (mainly Knoppix) don't include localisation support.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Macgpg-users] UTF8 or ISO-Latin-1 for localised shell version
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 18:11:22 +0200
From: Michael Nahrath <subotnik@gmx.de>
To: macgpg-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Usually I use MacOS X in German Language.

I included "export LANG=de_DE" inside my ~/.profile (bash is my standard
shell) and thus have GPG speak German in Terminal.app

I tried to follow PGPPreferences' recommendations and included
"charset utf8" in my ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and switched Terminal.app to use UTF8
as default charset.

So everything works fine as long as key data is concerned.
[0x307D56ED is a fine test key]

Unfortunately all localised UI texts of GPG _don't_ display well in UTF8:

pub  1024D/307D56ED  erstellt: 2001-05-17 verf?llt: niemals  Vertrauen: f/f
sub  2048g/B9A65282  erstellt: 2001-05-17 verf?llt: niemals
(1). Noèl Köthe <noel@debian.org>
(2)  Noèl Köthe <noel@guug.de>
...

["verf?llt" should read "verfällt" with the a-Umlaut]

I took a look at /usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnupg.mo which seems
to contain all localised text.

If I open it in BBEdit as utf8 I get an error message ("malformed").
If I open it in BBEdit as MacRoman all Umlauts are broken.
If I open it in BBEdit as ISO Latin 1 everything reads right.

So I removed "charset utf8" from my ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and switched
Terminal.app to use ISO Latin 1 and everything is displayed correctly.

Only GPGPreferences annoys sometimes with the warning that I should switch
everything to UTF8, but I know why I prefer to ignore this ;-)

Either the localised files should be converted to UTF8 or these silly
warnings should end and the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) charset should become the
default.

I am not shure if this is a Mac specific issue or if I should rather have
posted it to the gnupg-users list.

If it is of interest: I compiled GPG from the sources - but I know that
other people who used the MacOS installer package have the same problem.
Version is:

[michi@localhost]~$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.2
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Unterstützte Verfahren:
Öff.Schlüssel: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Verschlü.: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256
Komprimierung: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB


Greeting, Michi


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