Re: GnuPG and accented characters
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:19:22AM +0200 or thereabouts, Ren? Clerc wrote: Hi everyone, since we're talking about gpg anyway, perhaps I may find the answer to my problem here. as you can learn from my .signature, my name contains an e-accent-aigu. When I generate my key, with this character in it, everything's fine, but when I publish my key to the keyserver, it ends up like: Ren?? Clerc I used the both iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-2 for the --charset option, but this doesn't help. Does anybody know how to handle this problem? Is there another way of escaping this character in the gpg prompts? Or should I change some TERM setting or so? (mine is 'screen' right now)... Or should I just change my name? (sigh...) All the help is appreciated! hi. i found your mail in mutt-users mailing list and i'm having problem displaying accented characters in mutt. like your name it is appearing as Ren??. have you found the solution yet? -- GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions. --Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards) PGP signature
Re: X-GPG headers [was: GnuPG and accented characters]
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:59:11AM -0400, David T-G wrote: [... some very long config line ;) ...] | % This is because of GnuPG: when Mutt asks gpg for a key, and in case | % gpg doesn't have it, it downloads the key from a server, and passes | % it back to Mutt. So the retrieving is transparent to Mutt... | | Right. I think it likely, though, that you have a default value for | pgp_getkeys_command and are using that. Nopz. Just deleted your key (sorry), added set pgp_getkeys_command= to my ~/.muttrc and it did download your key again ;). So IMHO if you have set a good keyserver in your ~/.gnupg/options file, you don't need the pgp_getkeys_command... -- René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X-GPG headers [was: GnuPG and accented characters]
René -- ...and then Ren? Clerc said... % On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:50:24AM -0400, David T-G wrote: % % | Look into the mysteries of $pgp_getkeys_command to learn more % | (translation: RTFM :-) % % That command equals in my case ;) Now that's odd.. I use gpg with mutt and source gpg.rc (I *think* unmodified from the tarball except for my --keyring option, but I'm not positive) and I have set pgp_getkeys_command=gpg --recv-keys --keyring pubring.catch-all-keys.gpg %r 2/dev/null (sorry for the long line) in my config... % % This is because of GnuPG: when Mutt asks gpg for a key, and in case % gpg doesn't have it, it downloads the key from a server, and passes % it back to Mutt. So the retrieving is transparent to Mutt... Right. I think it likely, though, that you have a default value for pgp_getkeys_command and are using that. % % | % Because, when I view a message, I can't find any key id attached to % | % it... % | % | It has to be there or nobody would ever know, but it's embedded in the % | PGP code itself (IIRC) and thus not so obvious to your eye. % % It's probably somewhere in the PGP signature, I agree... Yah. % % -- % René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) % % Doing more with less. % -Buckminster Fuller :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! PGP signature
GnuPG and accented characters
Hi everyone, since we're talking about gpg anyway, perhaps I may find the answer to my problem here. as you can learn from my .signature, my name contains an e-accent-aigu. When I generate my key, with this character in it, everything's fine, but when I publish my key to the keyserver, it ends up like: René Clerc I used the both iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-2 for the --charset option, but this doesn't help. Does anybody know how to handle this problem? Is there another way of escaping this character in the gpg prompts? Or should I change some TERM setting or so? (mine is 'screen' right now)... Or should I just change my name? (sigh...) All the help is appreciated! Regards, -- René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) That is 27 years ago, or about half an eternity in computer years. -Alan Tibbetts (contributed by Nathan Poznick)
X-GPG headers [was: GnuPG and accented characters]
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:19:22AM +0200, René Clerc wrote: | Hi everyone, | | since we're talking about gpg anyway, perhaps I may find the answer to | my problem here. Problem discussed in gnupg-users mailinglist. Problem lies with keyservers not with me ;) Another question: are the X-GPG-*, X-PGP-* and alike headers generated because of some configuration settings, or are they just results of several my_hdr commands? -- René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Meteorologist, n.: A man who can look in a woman's eyes and predict whether.
Re: X-GPG headers [was: GnuPG and accented characters]
René -- ...and then Ren? Clerc said... % On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:19:22AM +0200, René Clerc wrote: % | % | since we're talking about gpg anyway, perhaps I may find the answer to % | my problem here. % % Problem discussed in gnupg-users mailinglist. Problem lies with % keyservers not with me ;) Good to know :-) % % Another question: % % are the X-GPG-*, X-PGP-* and alike headers generated because of some % configuration settings, or are they just results of several my_hdr % commands? No, I think it's my_hdr stuff. % % -- % René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) % % Meteorologist, n.: % A man who can look in a woman's eyes and predict whether. I thought that that was a meeting-her-ologist :-) :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! PGP signature
Re: X-GPG headers [was: GnuPG and accented characters]
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 06:23:13AM -0400, David T-G wrote: | % Another question: | % | % are the X-GPG-*, X-PGP-* and alike headers generated because of some | % configuration settings, or are they just results of several my_hdr | % commands? | | No, I think it's my_hdr stuff. Ok. Then probably the final question: (hope I'm not annoying you guys/girls ;) how does mutt know which key to fetch from the server? Does it base this on the e-mail address of the sender? Because, when I view a message, I can't find any key id attached to it... -- René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) In order to maintain a well-balanced perspective, the person who has a dog to worship him should also have a cat to ignore him.
Re: X-GPG headers [was: GnuPG and accented characters]
René -- ...and then Ren? Clerc said... % On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 06:23:13AM -0400, David T-G wrote: % | % | No, I think it's my_hdr stuff. % % Ok. Then probably the final question: % % (hope I'm not annoying you guys/girls ;) Not yet :-) % % how does mutt know which key to fetch from the server? Does it base % this on the e-mail address of the sender? Look into the mysteries of $pgp_getkeys_command to learn more (translation: RTFM :-) % % Because, when I view a message, I can't find any key id attached to % it... It has to be there or nobody would ever know, but it's embedded in the PGP code itself (IIRC) and thus not so obvious to your eye. % % -- % René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) % % In order to maintain a well-balanced perspective, the person who has a % dog to worship him should also have a cat to ignore him. :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! PGP signature
Re: X-GPG headers [was: GnuPG and accented characters]
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:50:24AM -0400, David T-G wrote: | % how does mutt know which key to fetch from the server? Does it base | % this on the e-mail address of the sender? | | Look into the mysteries of $pgp_getkeys_command to learn more | (translation: RTFM :-) That command equals in my case ;) This is because of GnuPG: when Mutt asks gpg for a key, and in case gpg doesn't have it, it downloads the key from a server, and passes it back to Mutt. So the retrieving is transparent to Mutt... | % Because, when I view a message, I can't find any key id attached to | % it... | | It has to be there or nobody would ever know, but it's embedded in the | PGP code itself (IIRC) and thus not so obvious to your eye. It's probably somewhere in the PGP signature, I agree... -- René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Doing more with less. -Buckminster Fuller
