UTF-8 uid, OS X sed problems

2 files changed, 36 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/doc/FAQ b/doc/FAQ
index 020dbfa5e..d2fb22b47 100644
--- a/doc/FAQ
+++ b/doc/FAQ
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 GNUPG FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
 
 
-Version: 1.4
-Last-Modified: Jun 2, 2001
+Version: 1.5
+Last-Modified: Jun 13, 2001
 Maintained-by: Nils Ellmenreich <nils 'at' gnupg.org>
 
 
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ you could search in the mailing list archive.
    6.14) Some dates are displayed as ????-??-??, why?
    6.15) I still have a problem. How do I report a bug?
    6.16) Why doesn't GnuPG support X509 certificates?
+   6.17) Why do national characters in my user ID look funny?
+   6.18) I get 'sed' errors when running ./configure on OS X ...
 
  7. ADVANCED TOPICS
    7.1) How does this whole thing work?
@@ -703,6 +705,21 @@ in it - why?
     They are both public-key cryptosystems, but how the public keys are
     actually handled is different.
 
+
+6.17) Why do national characters in my user ID look funny?
+
+    According to OpenPGP, GnuPG encodes user id strings (and other
+    things) using UTF-8.  In this encoding of Unicode, most national
+    characters get encoded as two- or three-byte sequences.  For
+    example, &aring; (0xE5 in ISO-8859-1) becomes &Atilde;&yen; (0xC3,
+    0xA5). This might also be the reason why keyservers can't find
+    your key.
+
+6.18) I get 'sed' errors when running ./configure on OS X ...
+
+    Please install GNU sed and use it instead of the broken OS X sed.
+
+
 7. ADVANCED TOPICS
 
 7.1) How does this whole thing work?
diff --git a/doc/faq.raw b/doc/faq.raw
index a484d6df2..d4c96c0d1 100644
--- a/doc/faq.raw
+++ b/doc/faq.raw
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ The most recent version of the FAQ is available from
 [H H1]GNUPG FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS[H /H1]
 
 
-Version: 1.4[H p]
-Last-Modified: Jun 2, 2001[H p]
+Version: 1.5[H p]
+Last-Modified: Jun 13, 2001[H p]
 Maintained-by: [$maintainer]
 
 
@@ -672,6 +672,21 @@ in it - why?
     They are both public-key cryptosystems, but how the public keys are
     actually handled is different.
 
+
+<Q> Why do national characters in my user ID look funny?
+
+    According to OpenPGP, GnuPG encodes user id strings (and other
+    things) using UTF-8.  In this encoding of Unicode, most national
+    characters get encoded as two- or three-byte sequences.  For
+    example, &aring; (0xE5 in ISO-8859-1) becomes &Atilde;&yen; (0xC3,
+    0xA5). This might also be the reason why keyservers can't find
+    your key.
+
+<Q> I get 'sed' errors when running ./configure on OS X ...
+
+    Please install GNU sed and use it instead of the broken OS X sed.
+
+
 <S> ADVANCED TOPICS
 
 <Q> How does this whole thing work?