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@@ -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, å (0xE5 in ISO-8859-1) becomes Ã¥ (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, å (0xE5 in ISO-8859-1) becomes Ã¥ (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? |