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

[Andrew Lau <netsnipe debianplanet org>]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 07:33:39PM +0200, Albrecht Dre? wrote:
> The solution (if you want to call it a solution ;-)) is changing the 
> national characters in the passphrase to utf-8 plus a consistent setup of 
> all Gnome 2 *and* terminal applications, i.e. to configure the terminal to 
> use utf-8 (this is of course not necessary if you never use command line 
> gpg, but *always* seahorse and/or gpa to e.g. encrypt real files). I 
> included some information about that in the FAQ's on my home page: 
> http://home.arcor.de/dralbrecht.dress/balsa/UsingGnuPG.html#FAQ

This information really should go into Balsa's README/FAQ file.

Cheers,
Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau

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