Bug#201092: balsa: does not accept french accents in the passphrase

[Andrew Lau <netsnipe debianplanet org>]

Hey Albrecht,

Since you're the one who is responsible for the GnuPG code in Balsa,
this bug report should interest you.

Cheers,
Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau

PS: I haven't created a Bugzilla entry for this yet, so feel free to do
so if you're not the only one working on this.

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Subject: Bug#201092: balsa: does not accept french accents in the passphrase to sign a mail
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Package: balsa
Version: 2.0.12-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

I used a private key with french accents (iso 8859-15), when I try to sign a mail I get :
"The passphrase for this key was bad"
I've changed the passphrase to other thing without the french accents and all went right

---
Regards
	Jean-Luc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tangerine 2.4.22-pre5 #1 sam jui 12 16:35:05 CEST 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro

Versions of packages balsa depends on:
ii  bonobo-activation             1:2.2.2-1  Bonobo Activation Framework
ii  libart-2.0-2                  2.3.13-1   Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaspell15                   0.50.3-12  The GNU Aspell spell-checker runti
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.2.4-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0                 0.2.3-4    The Audiofile Library
ii  libbonobo-activation4         1:2.2.2-1  Bonobo Activation Framework -- run
ii  libbonobo2-0                  2.2.3-1    Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0                2.2.2-1    The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-17   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                       0.2.29-1   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libesmtp5                     1.0-1      LibESMTP SMTP client library
ii  libfontconfig1                2.2.1-1    generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                  2.1.4-1    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgail-common                1.2.2-1    GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                     1.2.2-1    GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.2.1-1    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1                    1.1.12-1   LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.2.2-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                   2.2.2-1    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0             2.2.1-1    A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0            2.2.1.3-1  The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0          2.2.1.3-1  The GNOME 2.2 print architecture U
ii  libgnomeui-0                  2.2.1-1    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0                2.2.5-2    The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common           2.2.5-2    The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls5                    0.8.8-1    GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpgme6                     0.3.15-1   GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.2.1-6    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtkhtml2-0                 2.2.4-1    HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii  libjpeg62                     6b-6       The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libldap2                      2.1.21-1   OpenLDAP libraries
ii  liblinc1                      2:1.0.3-1  library to simplify creating netwo
ii  libltdl3                      1.4.3-9    A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  liborbit2                     1:2.6.2-1  Libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.2.3-1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpcre3                      4.3-1      Philip Hazel's Perl 5 Compatible R
ii  libpopt0                      1.7-2      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libssl0.9.7                   0.9.7b-1   SSL shared libraries
ii  libtasn1-0                    0.1.2-1    Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libxml2                       2.5.7-1    GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper                  0.3.12-1   A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                         4.2.1-9    X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-6  compression library - runtime

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