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Subject:    Re: 8Bit chars in --armor output? GnuPG Bug? (was: Re: [PATCH] use 7bit instead of base64 for applic
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-07-30 21:16:00
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On Monday, 30. July 2001 13:15, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Sunday 29 July 2001 22:30, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Sunday, 29. July 2001 22:33, Marc Mutz wrote:
> > > So what shall we do? Use --default-comment?
> >
> > No. (cf. my reply from yesterday)
>
> <snip>
>
> John Cane was so kind as to raise the subject on the corresponding
> ietf mailing list. It seems we hit a hole in the specification and
> they will probably fix it soon (by forbidding 0x80-0xff chars in
> armor).
>
> I included John's summary and think that for 2.2.1, we should do it
> as he suggests (modulo PGP not being able to da an equivalent).
>
> On Monday 30 July 2001 01:57, John Kane wrote:
> >   > So what shall we do? Use --default-comment?
> >
> > Actually, '  --comment ""  ' (null string) forces gnupg to
> > skip the comment line entirely.  You'd probably want
> > to use that instead.

I still don't like the idea that the users can't use a self-defined 
comment. It's an easy work around for us. But I guess not all GnuPG 
users will like it.
Maybe we could remove the comment line only if it contains non-ASCII 
characters and warn the user that we removed it because non-ASCII 
characters aren't allowed in the comment. This makes the implementation 
a little bit harder for us but IMHO it's a good compromise.

> > The option " --no-version " has a similar effect on the
> > version header line.  Try using both.

This option doesn't cause any problems as we always force GnuPG to 
respond in english, i.e. all GnuPG generated output is in ASCII. We 
should definitely keep the version header.

Regards,
Ingo
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