Re: OpenPGP and Unicode

Peter Palfrader wrote:
 > On Sat, 08 Jan 2005, Thomas Kuehne wrote:
 >
 >>In addition most key retrieving tool don't support international domain
 >>names(IDN).
 >>http://idn.kuehne.cn/openpgp.html#keyserver
 >
 > It is not clear that the UIDs should have their email addresses already
 > put into punycode instead of just using UTF-8.  IIRC there was a
 > discussion on gnupg-* about this recently.

The part you quoted isn't about UIDs but about the key server names
provided by direct user input or key data.
(RFC2440 5.2.3.17 Preferred key server)

e.g.: gpg --keyserver schlÃŒssel.example.net --refresh-keys

Thomas

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