localisations and charsets

[David Shaw]

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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 02:46:43AM +0200, Michael Nahrath wrote:

> Usually I use MacOS X in German Language.
>=20
> I included "export LANG=3Dde_DE" inside my ~/.profile (bash is my standard
> shell) and thus have GPG speak German in Terminal.app
>=20
> I tried to follow PGPPreferences' recommendations and included
> "charset utf8" in my ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and switched Terminal.app to use U=
TF8
> as default charset.
>=20
> So everything works fine as long as key data is concerned.
> [0x307D56ED is a fine test key]
>=20
> Unfortunately all localised UI texts of GPG _don't_ display well in UTF8:
>=20
> pub  1024D/307D56ED  erstellt: 2001-05-17 verf?llt: niemals  Vertrauen: f=
/f
> sub  2048g/B9A65282  erstellt: 2001-05-17 verf?llt: niemals
> (1). No=E8l K=F6the <noel@debian.org>
> (2)  No=E8l K=F6the <noel@guug.de>
> ...
>=20
> ["verf?llt" should read "verf=E4llt" with the a-Umlaut]

Try "export LANG=3Dde_DE.utf8" with the UTF8 Terminal.app.  I don't know
about the OSX gettext, but it works here.

David

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