Control: forwarded 795229 https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2067
Control: severity 795229 normal
Control: tags 795229 + upstream
Control: affects 795229 gnupg2
Hi Anarcat--
The obvious workarounds (like having a UTF-8 locale installed, which
should be the default on any sane modern OS) suggest to me that this is
lower priority than "important", though i understand that it's
frustrating.
I note that LANG=C.UTF-8 does seem to work as well.
I've forward this upstream as noted above. hopefully upstream will have
some answers. Do you have any suggestion of what to gpg should do in
this situation, btw?
It's on a system that has a non-UTF-8 locale, and it just received a
string of octets on argv that either don't make sense in its native
locale (the C.US-ASCII case), or that mean "Beaupré" in its native
locale (in the C.ISO-8859-1 case). What should gpg do?
--dkg
On Tue 2015-08-11 21:14:19 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> Package: gnupg
> Version: 1.4.18-7
> Severity: important
> File: /usr/bin/gpg
> Tags: l10n
>
> gpg can't seem to operate properly if the environment is not correctly set:
>
> [1007]anarcat@marcos:~$ LANG=C gpg --search-keys ='Antoine Beaupré
> <[email protected]>'
> gpg: searching for "=Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>" from hkp server
> pool.sks-keyservers.net
> gpg: key "=Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>" not found on keyserver
> [1008]anarcat@marcos:~$ LANG=C.UTF-8 gpg --search-keys ='Antoine Beaupré
> <[email protected]>'
> gpg: searching for "=Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>" from hkp server
> pool.sks-keyservers.net
> (1) Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>
> Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>
> Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>
> Antoine Beaupré (work) <[email protected]>
> Antoine Beaupré (Debian) <[email protected]>
> Antoine Beaupré (home address) <[email protected]>
> 4096 bit RSA key 7B75921E, created: 2009-05-29, expires: 2016-06-01
> (2) The Anarcat <[email protected]>
> The Anarcat <[email protected]>
> Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>
> 1024 bit DSA key 4023702F, created: 2005-03-08, expires: 2010-03-12
> (revoked) (expired)
> Keys 1-2 of 2 for "=Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>". Enter number(s),
> N)ext, or Q)uit > q
>
> This is pretty annoying, because it expects *everyone* to have a UTF-8
> locale. Because my uid has an accent in it, it makes it impossible for
> some people to search for my key on the keyservers.
>
> This is also a problem with gpg2:
>
> [1002]anarcat@marcos:~$ LANG=C gpg2 --search-keys ='Antoine Beaupré <a
> gpg: searching for "=Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>" from hkp server
> po
> gpg: key "=Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>" not found on keyserver
> [1003]anarcat@marcos:~$ LANG=C.UTF-8 gpg2 --search-keys ='Antoine Beaupré
> <[email protected]>'
> gpg: searching for "=Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>" from hkp server
> pool.sks-keyservers.net
> (1) Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>
> Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>
> Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>
> Antoine Beaupré (work) <[email protected]>
> Antoine Beaupré (Debian) <[email protected]>
> Antoine Beaupré (home address) <[email protected]>
> 4096 bit RSA key 7B75921E, created: 2009-05-29, expires: 2016-06-01
> (2) The Anarcat <[email protected]>
> The Anarcat <[email protected]>
> Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>
> 1024 bit DSA key 4023702F, created: 2005-03-08, expires: 2010-03-12
> (revoked) (expired)
> Keys 1-2 of 2 for "=Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>". Enter number(s),
> N)ext, or Q)uit > q
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.1
> APT prefers stable
> APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages gnupg depends on:
> ii gpgv 1.4.18-7
> ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-7+b3
> ii libc6 2.19-18
> ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b3
> ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-25
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
>
> Versions of packages gnupg recommends:
> ii gnupg-curl 1.4.18-7
> ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.40+dfsg-1
>
> Versions of packages gnupg suggests:
> ii eog 3.14.1-1
> pn gnupg-doc <none>
> ii imagemagick 8:6.8.9.9-5
> ii libpcsclite1 1.8.13-1
> pn parcimonie <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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