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Re: pgp signing



On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:14:44PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Tuesday, 09.09.2003 at 16:58 +0100, A. S. Budden wrote:
> 
> > > > Just noticed a bit of an odd problem.  If I send an email and
> > > > select the pgp sign option, it asks me for my passphrase as
> > > > expected.  If I'm in an xterm (konsole actually) it works fine, if
> > > > I'm in a virtual console (I think that's what it's called -- what
> > > > you get by typing Ctrl-Alt-F1), it fails.  Having investigated
> > > > this, I think it's got something to do with the fact that in my
> > > > password (I hope I'm not giving too much away here), there is the
> > > > pound sign (as in GBP -- pounds sterling, shift-3 on a UK
> > > > keyboard).  If I type this symbol at the terminal prompt, it
> > > > appears as expected, but if I type it in any of the mutt prompts,
> > > > nothing happens at all.
> > > > 
> > > > Can anyone offer any suggestions please?
> > 
> The British pound sign is not a 'universal' ASCII character (that's the
> wrong term, but hopefully you can see what I mean).  The fact that it's
> on the _keyboard_ is irrelevant.  The problem is that the pound sign
> might not exist consistently across different locales and other
> settings.  If I use a system with French settings, for example, I
> wouldn't be surprise if the pound sign failed to work.
The pound sign works for french because it is in iso8859-15, the charset
used by western european people.

> In terms of solving your problem, you could investigate the Mutt build
> options '--enable-locales-fix' and '--without-wc-funcs'.
> 
> This is probably not the right way to fix the problem, but it might
> help.
Probably not. To get mutt work nicely with european characters we just
have to configure the locales. I think there are not configured *at all*
on his computer. There are a *lot* of discussions about Mutt and locales
in the archives of this mailing list.

> In terms of finding a simple way to solve your problem, the single
> easiest thing to change is your passphrase, hence the '<serious>' tag
> :-)
Definitively a dumb idea.
-- 
Bernard Massot

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