Re: Bug#412896: Error when trying to sign an e-mail: Problem with non-ASCII chars in passphrase

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Mar 01 2007, Frank Küster wrote:

> I am using the Debian "emacs-snapshot" package, for details see below,
> and experience problems when trying to gpg-sign an E-mail.  I press C-c
> RET C-s which produces in the first line "<'hashsign'part sign=pgpmime>"
>   (with s/'hashsign'/#/, but writing this literally has the effect that
>    Gnus wants to sign the mail, which obviously wouldn't work),

,----[ `C-h k C-c RET q' ]
| C-c RET q runs the command mml-quote-region
|   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `mml'.
| It is bound to <menu-bar> <Attachments> <Quote MML in region>, C-c RET q.
| (mml-quote-region beg end)
| 
| Quote the MML tags in the region.
`----

> and it asks for the passphrase when sending.  I enter it and get a "bad
> passphrase" together with an error (backtrace below)
>
> I have created a test gpg key and played with the passphrase, and one
> that triggered the error was "MitPara§".  "MitDollar$", on the other
> hand, worked fine.
>
> What should I do to debug this?  Is this list the right one, or should I
> ask the gnus people? 

I'm Cc-ing Daiki Ueno, the author of PGG.

This problem has been discussed in March 2006:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62428/focus=62441
(BTW, Frank I've Cc-ed you in this thread.)

I don't know if the patch (which was "not the right fix" according to
Daiki) has been applied and what would be the right fix.  Should we
simply document that non-ascii characters don't work / may cause
problems?

> ,----[ C-h v emacs-version RET ]
> | emacs-version is a variable defined in `version.el'.
> | Its value is "22.0.94.1"
> ,----[ C-h v gnus-version RET ]
> | gnus-version is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
> | Its value is "Gnus v5.11"

[ See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs/17314 for the
  complete message. ]

Bye, Reiner.
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