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

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcor de>]

Am 13.07.03 16:34 schrieb(en) Andrew Lau:
> 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

An other user saw exactly the same problem... After some discussion we 
decided that this is more a feature than a bug, as *all* Gnome 2 
applications, including seahorse and gpa, use utf-8 and will therefore 
reject this passphrase.

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

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

	Albrecht.

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