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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