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@@ -51,23 +51,23 @@ $Id$
#default-recipient some-user-id
#default-recipient-self
-
-# The next option is enabled because this one is needed for interoperation
-# with PGP 5 users. To enable full OpenPGP compliance you have to remove
-# this option.
-
-force-v3-sigs
+# By default GnuPG creates version 3 signatures for data files. This
+# is not OpenPGP compliant but PGP 6 requires them. To disable it,
+# you may use this option or --openpgp.
+#no-force-v3-sigs
# Because some mailers change lines starting with "From " to ">From "
# it is good to handle such lines in a special way when creating
# cleartext signatures; all other PGP versions do it this way too.
-# To enable full OpenPGP compliance you have to remove this option.
-
-escape-from-lines
-
-# If you do not use the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) charset, you should
-# tell GnuPG which is the native character set. Please check
-# the man page for supported character sets.
+# To enable full OpenPGP compliance you may want to use this option.
+#no-escape-from-lines
+
+# If you do not use the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) charset, you should tell
+# GnuPG which is the native character set. Please check the man page
+# for supported character sets. This character set is only used for
+# Meta data and not for the actual message which does not undergo any
+# translation. Note that future version of GnuPG will change to UTF-8
+# as default character set.
#charset utf-8