UTF-8 bug in gpa

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Thu Mar 21 16:24:01 2002


On 21 Mar 2002 14:44:13 +0100, Martin Norbäck said:

> More seriously, user names produced by the gui will not be valid UTF-8,
> and will therefore be illegal.

Oh dear, this will cause us a lot of grief especially now that a lot
of CeBIT visitors got the CD.  Many European users will run into this
trap.  Hopefully a new version can be released ASAP so that not too
many bad keys get into use.  

BTW, PGP has the same problem.

Thanks for reporting,

  Werner