German "umlauts" in passphrase

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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Werner Koch wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:27, Karl Kashofer said:
> 
>> So, how would I examine the charset talbles ? The UserID and other information 
>> printed by GnuPG is correctly displayed with all the umlauts. How do I find 
>> out what character I have to type to get the umlaut in my passphrase?
> 
> You need to try.  There is no conversion inside gpg and gpg uses
> whatever you type/feed.  I see that this is a problem between
> different platforms.  However there is no real solution for this
> problem because it would break all non-ASCII pasphrases currently in
> use.

How about some new command line parameters that specify the charset of
the passphrase provided and/or the charset in which the passphrase is
stored on the keyring?

- -Patrick
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