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Wrong char encoding Gnupg -> agent -> pinentry
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Description

When the locale is set to e.g. iso-8859-1, gpg 2.0 will send a string like "Sie
benötigen eine Passphrase" (de_DE) in this encoding to the agent which in turn
transmits it to pinentry. If the string contains utf-8 encoded information from
a key, pinentry will get confused.

Gpg 1.4 /always/ used utf-8 for all strings sent to the agent/pinentry, even if
the locale was set differently. GnuPG 2.0 should also follow this approach.

Details

External Link
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2006-November/023389.html
Version
2.0.0

Event Timeline

albrecht.dress set Version to 2.0.0.Nov 27 2006, 9:14 PM
albrecht.dress added projects: gnupg, Bug Report.
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albrecht.dress set External Link to http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2006-November/023389.html.Nov 27 2006, 9:18 PM
• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Nov 28 2006, 9:20 AM

Marcus: gpg features the options

--display
--ttyname
--ttytype
--lc-ctype
--lc-messages

Pass them to all gpg's with a version >= 1.3.0

• werner assigned this task to marcus.Nov 28 2006, 9:20 AM
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• werner removed marcus as the assignee of this task.Nov 28 2006, 1:45 PM
• werner assigned this task to marcus.
marcus added a comment.Nov 29 2006, 4:25 PM

I checked this in:

2006-11-29 Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@g10code.de>

  • rungpg.c: Include <unistd.h>. (gpg_new): Support --display, --ttyname, --ttytype, --lc-ctype and --lc-messages. Fixes T734.
marcus added a project: Restricted Project.Nov 29 2006, 4:25 PM
• werner added a comment.Apr 16 2007, 3:03 PM

That was a gpgme issue.

• werner closed this task as Resolved.Apr 16 2007, 3:03 PM
• werner removed a project: Restricted Project.