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Joerg Ziefle schrieb am Mittwoch, den 26. Januar 2000:

Hallo Joerg,

> I recently wondered if it is reasonable to use German umlauts in one's user
> ID, as I know of a few mail programs which don't display the UID correct in
> this case.
> [...]
> What do you think about this?

I would not recommend you this, because some programs cannot handle
umlauts. For example PGP cannot handle umlauts und you get some ugly
escape-codes (e.g. \374) in the output of pgpk.

Cheers,
Thomas
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jörg Ziefle wrote:

> I recently wondered if it is reasonable to use German umlauts in one's user
> ID, as I know of a few mail programs which don't display the UID correct in
> this case.

It is perfectly okay to have the Umlauts in your user ID. OpenPGP
defines that user IDs are to be encoded in UTF-8. You should only
make shure that you use the rightr --charset option (it defaults to
Latin-1, so in many cases this is okay).

Please note, that mail uses another encoding for 8 bit characters in
mail headers.


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