Nevermind, y'all!
What I stumbled upon is that gpg correctly uses utf8 encoding,
which apparently nobody else does. I propose the following
addition to the FAQ list:
* 6.17 Why do my national characters go wrong when using other
software? My name looks funny and isn't found by searches
on the keyserver.
GnuPG encodes user id strings (and other things) using UTF-8.
In this encoding, most national characters get encoded as
two- or three-byte sequences. For example, å (0xE5 in
ISO-8859-1) becomes å (0xC3, 0xA5).
Magnus
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Magnus B{ckstr|m wrote:
> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:51:11 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Magnus B{ckstr|m <b@etek.chalmers.se>
> To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
> Subject: Character set problems
>
> Hi,
>
> Why when I say I'm Magnus Bäckström do I turn out as Magnus Bäckström?
> gpg pretends nothing has happened and prints the correct name, but
> e g keyservers get it wrong, and when I run gpg --list-packets on my
> public key I get (excerpt):
>
> :user ID packet: "Magnus B\xc3\xa4ckstr\xc3\xb6m <b@etek.chalmers.se>"
>
> Thanks,
> Magnus B<whatever>ckstr<whatever>m
>
>
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What I stumbled upon is that gpg correctly uses utf8 encoding,
which apparently nobody else does. I propose the following
addition to the FAQ list:
* 6.17 Why do my national characters go wrong when using other
software? My name looks funny and isn't found by searches
on the keyserver.
GnuPG encodes user id strings (and other things) using UTF-8.
In this encoding, most national characters get encoded as
two- or three-byte sequences. For example, å (0xE5 in
ISO-8859-1) becomes å (0xC3, 0xA5).
Magnus
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Magnus B{ckstr|m wrote:
> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:51:11 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Magnus B{ckstr|m <b@etek.chalmers.se>
> To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
> Subject: Character set problems
>
> Hi,
>
> Why when I say I'm Magnus Bäckström do I turn out as Magnus Bäckström?
> gpg pretends nothing has happened and prints the correct name, but
> e g keyservers get it wrong, and when I run gpg --list-packets on my
> public key I get (excerpt):
>
> :user ID packet: "Magnus B\xc3\xa4ckstr\xc3\xb6m <b@etek.chalmers.se>"
>
> Thanks,
> Magnus B<whatever>ckstr<whatever>m
>
>
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