Re: Different locale for pinentry

Klaus Ethgen <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Apr 2026 18:32:51 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.user
Message-ID	<adPuQ72R2acho9tK@chil>

By the way, I checked the log file that should have utf8 strings but
there is latin1: "command 'PKDECRYPT' failed: Kein geheimer Schlüssel"
(see the "ü").

So for some reasons, that switch to utf8 is not working or reverted.

I do not know the code good enough, but I checked and found some
i18n_switchto_utf8/i18n_switchback somewhere in he gpg-agent dir.
However, that looks quite reasonable for me.

The only difference I find is that all the code uses "utf-8" but
gpg-agent uses "UTF-8". Could it be that this codeset is case sensitive?

You even have the following comment:
      { /* We only switch when we are able to restore the codeset later.
           Note that bind_textdomain_codeset does only return on memory
           errors but not if a codeset is not available.  Thus we don't
           bother printing a diagnostic here. */

So I am afraid that it is just ignoring that UTF-8. But I would not bet
for it.

Would it be possible to check after setting it if the codeset is equal?

Something like:
char *orig_codeset = bind_textdomain_codeset(PACKAGE_GT, NULL);
if (!strcmp(orig_codeset, "UTF-8"))
{
   log_info(_("WARNING: \"%s\" is not equal to UTF-8\n"), orig_codeset);
}

Regards
   Klaus
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Klaus Ethgen                                       http://www.ethgen.ch/
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