Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org wrote on Tue Jul 18 12:18:45 CEST 2006 >On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:27, Karl Kashofer said:
> So, how would I examine the charset talbles ? The UserID and other >information printed by GnuPG is correctly displayed with all the >umlauts. How do I find out what character I have to type to get the >umlaut in my passphrase? here is a table of the extended ASCII chart including umlauted letters: The extended ASCII chart http://www.cdrummond.qc.ca/cegep/informat/Professeurs/Alain/files/as cii.htm and here is an online javascript converter, where you type whatever key you have on whatever platform, and it will give you the ascii number of the character that is typed: http://www.vortex.prodigynet.co.uk/misc/ascii_conv.html ] You need to try. There is no conversion inside gpg and gpg uses ]whatever you type/feed. I see that this is a problem between ]different platforms. However there is no real solution for this ]problem because it would break all non-ASCII pasphrases currently in ]use. is there a way to link the character to the underlying ASCII representation, so that the same character is identified cross- platform (for the latin alphabet at least) ? example: u-umlaut == ascii 129 if gnupg identified it as ascii 129, and all platforms expect to see ascii 129 as the correct character, then all that remains is to enter it as the same character on each platform a possible way to do this, might be to have an option for gnupg to enter the ascii number for each character of the passphrase, and type the number ( 0 - 256 )instead of typing the character not 'easier', but at least a 'backup' way to decrypt when one cannot enter the exact character with certainty directly from the keyboard vedaal Concerned about your privacy? Instantly send FREE secure email, no account required http://www.hushmail.com/send?l=480 Get the best prices on SSL certificates from Hushmail https://www.hushssl.com?l=485 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
