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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gpg.sgml | 12 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 6d66ec5ce..0c108f799 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2004-05-05 David Shaw <[email protected]> + + * gpg.sgml: --comment works with all armored messages. Clarify + that --charset applies to informational strings and does not + recode messages themselves. + 2004-05-03 Werner Koch <[email protected]> * gpgv.sgml: Removed reference to non-available option diff --git a/doc/gpg.sgml b/doc/gpg.sgml index d26ccb96a..ad4607a48 100644 --- a/doc/gpg.sgml +++ b/doc/gpg.sgml @@ -1332,10 +1332,10 @@ $GNUPGHOME. <term>--charset &ParmName;</term> <listitem><para> Set the name of the native character set. This is used to convert -some strings to proper UTF-8 encoding. If this option is not used, the -default character set is determined from the current locale. A -verbosity level of 3 shows the used one. Valid values for &ParmName; -are:</para> +some informational strings like user IDs to the proper UTF-8 +encoding. If this option is not used, the default character set is +determined from the current locale. A verbosity level of 3 shows the +used one. Valid values for &ParmName; are:</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term>iso-8859-1</term><listitem><para>This is the Latin 1 set.</para></listitem> @@ -1471,8 +1471,8 @@ soon. <varlistentry> <term>--comment &ParmString;</term> <listitem><para> -Use &ParmString; as the comment string in clear text signatures. The -default behavior is not to use a comment string. +Use &ParmString; as the comment string in ASCII armored or clearsigned +messages. The default behavior is to not use a comment string. </para></listitem></varlistentry> |