OpenPGP and Unicode

Thomas Kuehne <thomas-RcPWCUTGNVL/[email protected]> Sat, 08 Jan 2005 17:01:00 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.pgp.sks,gmane.comp.encryption.pgp.keyserver-folk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[sorry if anybody receives duplicates  due to crossposting]

Hi,

I have noticed that many keyservers - especial their web interfaces -
have problems with correctly displaying UIDs containing characters
outside of the basic Latin script.
Sometimes it's missing/wrong charset information in the returned results
but quite often those characters are transmitted as ASCII "?" .

You can find some sample keys here:
http://idn.kuehne.cn/openpgp.html#username

In addition most key retrieving tool don't support international domain
names(IDN).
http://idn.kuehne.cn/openpgp.html#keyserver

Thomas Kühne

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