Viktor --
...and then Viktor Rosenfeld said...
% David T-G wrote:
%
% > % Unfortunately, pgp_create_traditional is only used with us-ascii mails,
% > % which kinda defeats its purpose in my case. This is extremely annoying,
% > % because it basically means, that I cannot talk to non-English speaking
% > % Outlook users.
% >
% > I don't really know a whole lot about this, but I thought that that was,
% > indeed, one of the big limitations of traditional signing.
% >
% > Have any non-English-speaking LookOut! users sent you PGP-signed mail?
% > I'd be quite interested in seeing what happens to their charset along
% > the way. Maybe Micro$oft has managed to break this in a completely new
% > way ;-)
%
% Unfortunately, no, it seems that I'm the only user of PGP-signed mail in
Ah, well.
% my Freundeskreis. (Don't know the English word and too lazy to look it
% up. Actually, a very cool German song is called like this. Anyway ...)
Maybe I'll look it up tomorrow :-)
%
% In any case, I've found a solution that is acceptable to me, although
% it's just a dirty hack. I searched the archives again and came across a
% post by Bruno Postle, where he suggests the following macro:
%
% macro compose S "Fgpg -a --clearsign -u 0x82C08753"
Right...
%
% This was nothing for me, because in this case I had to turn off
% pgp_autosign, sign the message myself, send the message and then turn
% pgp_autosign back on. Too much work.
%
% However, using send-hooks and overloading the <send-message>-key, I now
Ta-daa! :-)
% have the following:
%
% send-hook . "set pgp_autosign; macro compose y <send-message>"
% send-hook "~C [EMAIL PROTECTED]" "unset pgp_autosign; macro compose y 'Fgpg
--armor --clearsign --local-user 0x23314340\ny<send-message>'" # Christian Seewald
%
% And it works, perfectly.
Great!
So, I wonder, how do your non-"us-ascii" emails look when they've been
clearsigned?
%
% Cheers,
% Viktor
% --
% Viktor Rosenfeld
% WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
:-D
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