Zero width no-break space (U+FEFF) in clearsigned output message

[David Shaw]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 01:41:08AM +0300, lusfert wrote:
> David Shaw wrote on 27.11.2005  1:05:
> > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 12:18:08AM +0300, lusfert wrote:
> > 
> >>David Shaw wrote on 26.11.2005, Сб 18:30:
> >>
> >>>U+FEFF is the BOM character.  It was in the original document, so it's
> >>>in the signed document as well.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Then why this BOM character appears in clearsigned text if option
> >>--textmode (-t) is used? As I understand from its description in man
> >>file GnuPG threat input file as text. But BOM is a file, not text
> >>signature; then why U+FEFF appears in output text? Or I'm wrong?
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure what question you're asking here.  The BOM character is
> > in your original document.  GnuPG doesn't modify input text, so
> > therefore the BOM character is in the output text as well.  If you use
> > --textmode, GnuPG canonicalizes line endings to CRLF, but again does
> > not change actual text, including the BOM.
> > 
> As I understand GnuPG handles input as text file, not as plain text,
> even if option -t used?

For clearsigned files, effectively --textmode is always set.

David