On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 06:56:50AM +0200, Kajsa Anka wrote: > I'm new to gpg and I've recently compiled and installed gpg > on my Mac and it seem to work. However, I don't understand > how to get it to use UTF-8, what happens is that I launch > gpg like this > > gpg --gen-key --utf8-strings > > and start fill in the data I get > > Comment: > You are using the `US-ASCII' character set. > You selected this USER-ID: > "Håkan Öberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > > The terminal is set to use utf8. So I'm doing something wrong > but what?
It's not your fault. There is an old bug in the Mac libraries such that it reports everything as US-ASCII. Stick "display-charset utf-8" in your gpg.conf file and that will override the libraries. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
