Unicode support

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Thu May 26 04:25:43 CEST 2005


On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:30:22PM +0200, Sascha Kiefer wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Assume, i have a mail text body; it's charset is something other than 
> us-ascii.
> Does it work (have not tried it yet) to convert the data to utf-8 and 
> then signing it armored?

GPG doesn't really care very much about the format of the data you
give it to sign.  If you put in UTF-8, you'll get a signature over
UTF-8.  If you put in something else, you'll get a signature over
something else.

David



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