Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I got this Error message for the first time this morning. Nice of Debian to > expect UTF-8 for everything, but unpractical given how my GPG key and a number > of other things were created in the days of Latin-1. > > If I change my locale setting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1], debsign can no longer > find my GPG key, because it expects the accent on my name to be encoded in > UTF-8, even though the key was created in Latin-1.
If debian/changelog is encoded in utf-8 and you're terminal can work with utf-8, it should work. I start mlterm, export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8, after that I can use debsign without problems. > Another thing is, several remote sites I need to access on a daily basis simply > do not offer UTF-8 locales. In those cases, I still need a terminal that > functions in Latin-1, including all accented characters. Switching locale would > definitely break a lot of things there, because the remote end would receive > accented characters using UTF-8 escape sequences, instead of plain Latin-1. > > Then, has anybody checked if the content of /etc/passwd is UTF-8 friendly? If > I'm gonna recode my name, might as well recode it everywhere, including there. Other than for debsign, I use a latin-9 locale everywhere. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie