Maniphest T7645

Kleopatra: Encoding errors in signature verification audit log (timestamps)
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timegrid
May 8 2025, 10:49 AM
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The encoding of the signature verification audit log seems broken:

@ikloecker wrote in https://dev.gnupg.org/T6869#200690

Apparently, gpg prints the time (zone) with a different encoding than its own texts (e.g. "EDDSA-Schlüssel"). I suspect that a POSIX function is used for printing the time and that one doesn't know that gpg wants to print everything with UTF-8 encoding. We wouldn't have this problem if gpg would use LANG=C. I'm wondering why gpgme doesn't call gpg with LANG=C to avoid any problems with non-ASCII characters.

Note: This screenshot from around Dec 8 2023 in T6869 doesn't have those errors:

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gpg4win-5.0.0-beta167@win10

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timegrid created this task.May 8 2025, 10:49 AM
timegrid created this object with edit policy "Contributor (Project)".
• ebo added a comment.EditedMay 8 2025, 11:05 AM

Note that old screenshot was made with a version using a gpg from the 2.2 branch.
And on a Windows VM which was (I'm quite sure) installed in German from the start.
In case it matters…

timegrid mentioned this in T6869: Kleopatra: Improve verification results messages (esp. for invalid signature and multiple signatures).May 8 2025, 11:08 AM
timegrid added a comment.May 8 2025, 11:17 AM

my win10 vm was also installed with german language

• werner triaged this task as Low priority.EditedMay 9 2025, 9:25 AM
• werner edited projects, added gnupg26; removed kleopatra.
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I think we have another report on this in the tracker. The problem is indeed the ugly Windows time functions to print a string. Let me only remind that until a few years, Windows had the opinion that Germany uses the Westeuropäische Zeit like Portugal or the UK.

• werner renamed this task from Kleopatra: Encoding errors in signature verification audit log to Kleopatra: Encoding errors in signature verification audit log (timestamps).May 9 2025, 9:26 AM