As originally reported back on
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2012-July/045050.html, i'm having
difficulties searching for some non-ASCII user IDs when LANG=C, but not others:
0 dkg@alice:/tmp/cdtemp.fre2o5$ LANG=C gpg --keyserver keys.mayfirst.org
--search '=Andrew Lee (李健秋) <ajqlee@debian.org>'
gpg: searching for "=Andrew Lee (æå¥ç§) <ajqlee@debian.org>" from hkp server
keys.mayfirst.org
(1) Andrew Lee <andrew@linux.org.tw>
Andrew Lee (\xe6\x9d\x8e\xe5\x81\xa5\xe7\xa7\x8b) <ajqlee@debian.org>
Andrew Lee (\xe6\x9d\x8e\xe5\x81\xa5\xe7\xa7\x8b) <andrew@debian.org.t
Andrew Lee (§?î) <andrew@linux.org.tw>
1024 bit DSA key 0xB6250985, created: 2004-11-02
Keys 1-1 of 1 for "=Andrew Lee (李健秋) <ajqlee@debian.org>". Enter number(s),
N)ext, or Q)uit > q
0 dkg@alice:/tmp/cdtemp.fre2o5$ LANG=C gpg --keyserver keys.mayfirst.org
--search ='Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>'
gpg: searching for "=Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>" from hkp server
keys.mayfirst.org
gpg: key "=Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>" not found on keyserver
0 dkg@alice:/tmp/cdtemp.fre2o5$