On Tuesday 24 May 2016 08:26:54 Werner Koch wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2016 20:19, r...@sixdemonbag.org said:
> > At first blush it appears the answer is "no, but most people use
> > UTF-8.">
> > If so that's fine, but I'll have to silently discard a number of
> > user
>
> OpenPGP requires that th
On Mon, 23 May 2016 20:19, r...@sixdemonbag.org said:
> At first blush it appears the answer is "no, but most people use UTF-8."
> If so that's fine, but I'll have to silently discard a number of user
OpenPGP requires that the user id is UTF-8 encoded. Older PGP versions
did not care about enco
On 23 May 2016, at 23:24, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> In the case of "all 8-bit characters, no 7-bit" you're dealing with
>> either a practical joker or EBCDIC. Same thing really...
>
> Or KOI-8R/Windows-1251.
I'd forgotten about that. Or any of the iso-8859 that encode non-Latin scripts.
Or s
> In the case of "all 8-bit characters, no 7-bit" you're dealing with
> either a practical joker or EBCDIC. Same thing really...
Or KOI-8R/Windows-1251.
> After that you're into heuristics. There are quite a few programs out
> there that attempt to detect encodings statistically, but with such a
> On 23 May 2016, at 20:19, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>
> Is there any way to determine the encoding for a user ID string?
>
> At first blush it appears the answer is "no, but most people use UTF-8."
You can tell fairly reliably if someone is using either vanilla ascii or UTF8,
in the cases of
Is there any way to determine the encoding for a user ID string?
At first blush it appears the answer is "no, but most people use UTF-8."
If so that's fine, but I'll have to silently discard a number of user
IDs that appear to be in foreign encodings or are garbled UTF-8. I'd
prefer not to do th
