unconvertable chars display glitches

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri Jan 14 19:14:31 CET 2005


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:19:46 +0100 (CET), Alain Bench said:

> UTF-8 special chars: An 'é' (e acute) and a 'œ' (oe ligature). Perfect
> display in a locale having both chars, like with CP-1252 charset:

That is due to wrong aliasing Latin-1 to CP-1252; it has already been
removed in the CVS version.

>  - The warning line about failed conversion may perhaps not be really
> necessary in such simple unconvertability case: The \hex display of raw
> UTF-8 may well be sufficient?

We can't do anything about it.  The warning is issued from deep inside
of gpg and not while printing the user ID.

Thanks,

  Werner




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