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authorDavid Shaw <[email protected]>2005-09-22 03:09:38 +0000
committerDavid Shaw <[email protected]>2005-09-22 03:09:38 +0000
commit8db0dc2f08e25423a83afdd76c7279668720307d (patch)
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parent* mainproc.c (proc_symkey_enc): Take care of a canceled passphrase (diff)
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* gpg.sgml: Note that --display-charset is just for display and
doesn't recode data. Note that --search-keys can use the standard search syntax now (<, =, *, @). Document the @-address mode.
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-rw-r--r--doc/gpg.sgml26
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index a7036309f..8b39cd134 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2005-09-21 David Shaw <[email protected]>
+
+ * gpg.sgml: Note that --display-charset is just for display and
+ doesn't recode data. Note that --search-keys can use the standard
+ search syntax now (<, =, *, @). Document the @-address mode.
+
2005-08-23 David Shaw <[email protected]>
* gpg.sgml: Fix documentation for setpref/updpref, document
diff --git a/doc/gpg.sgml b/doc/gpg.sgml
index 62d635f02..ee8a3040f 100644
--- a/doc/gpg.sgml
+++ b/doc/gpg.sgml
@@ -749,6 +749,10 @@ keyservers set (see --keyserver-option honor-keyserver-url).
Search the keyserver for the given names. Multiple names given here
will be joined together to create the search string for the keyserver.
Option --keyserver must be used to give the name of this keyserver.
+Keyservers that support different search methods allow using the
+syntax specified in "How to specify a user ID" below. Note that
+different keyserver types support different search methods. Currently
+only LDAP supports them all.
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -1470,8 +1474,8 @@ the --edit-key command "clean uids" before export. Defaults to no.
<listitem><para>
When using the "--export-secret-subkeys" command, this option resets
the passphrases for all exported subkeys to empty. This is useful
-when the exported subkey is to be used on an unattended amchine where
-a passphrase won't make sense. Defaults to no.
+when the exported subkey is to be used on an unattended machine where
+a passphrase doesn't necessarily make sense. Defaults to no.
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist>
@@ -1756,10 +1760,12 @@ found.
<term>--display-charset &ParmName;</term>
<listitem><para>
Set the name of the native character set. This is used to convert
-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
-chosen set. Valid values for &ParmName; are:</para>
+some informational strings like user IDs to the proper UTF-8 encoding.
+Note that this has nothing to do with the character set of data to be
+encrypted or signed; GnuPG does not recode user supplied data. If
+this option is not used, the default character set is determined from
+the current locale. A verbosity level of 3 shows the chosen set.
+Valid values for &ParmName; are:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>iso-8859-1</term><listitem><para>This is the Latin 1 set.</para></listitem>
@@ -2943,6 +2949,14 @@ indicates this email address mode.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry>
+<term>@heinrichh</term>
+<listitem><para>
+Match within the &#60;email.address&#62; part of a user ID. The at sign
+indicates this email address mode.
+</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
<!-- we don't do this
<varlistentry>
<term>+Heinrich Heine duesseldorf</term>