Incompatible passphrase encoding in gpg/gpg-agent?

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Tue Apr 12 20:38:49 CEST 2005


On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:51:05PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> Bernhard Reiter sagte:
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 05:35:27PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> >> I have recently received a bugreport about pinentry-qt not handling the
> >> "§"
> >> character correctly. After some testing it turns out that gpg, if used
> >> without gpg-agent seems to encode passphrases differently than the
> >> agents do.
> >
> > That probably is a locale and encoding issue.
> > Of course the pinentries should use the current locale and if they
> > run on X11 they are influenced by those settings, too.

> I've tested this with gpg and the pinentries running in the same
> x11-session with the same locale and encoding (de_DE.ISO8859-15, I believe
> that charset is called @euro in glibc-land). It should be easily reproducable.

Werner: Where would you like the bug report for this issue?
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