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

[Frank Küster]

Hi,

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),
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? The details I can provide so far are

,----[ 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"
| [...]
`----

There's no other gnus installed:

~$ dpkg -l gnus
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                     Version                  Description
+++-========================-========================-================================================================
pn  gnus                     <none>                   (no description available)

This is the error message:

[GNUPG:] USERID_HINT FB1B3D632252FA1A Frank KÃŒster <address@hidden>
[GNUPG:] NEED_PASSPHRASE FB1B3D632252FA1A FB1B3D632252FA1A 17 0
[GNUPG:] BAD_PASSPHRASE FB1B3D632252FA1A
gpg: skipped "frank": bad passphrase
gpg: signing failed: bad passphrase

And this is the backtrace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Sign error")
  signal(error ("Sign error"))
  error("Sign error")
  mml2015-pgg-sign((part (sign . "pgpmime") (tag-location . 333) (contents . 
"hallo\n-- \nDr. Frank K\xf7cster\nSingle Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein 
Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Z\xf7crich\nDebian Developer 
(teTeX/TeXLive)\n")))
  mml2015-sign((part (sign . "pgpmime") (tag-location . 333) (contents . 
"hallo\n-- \nDr. Frank K\xf7cster\nSingle Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein 
Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Z\xf7crich\nDebian Developer 
(teTeX/TeXLive)\n")))
  mml-pgpmime-sign-buffer((part (sign . "pgpmime") (tag-location . 333) 
(contents . "hallo\n-- \nDr. Frank K\xf7cster\nSingle Molecule Spectroscopy, 
Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Z\xf7crich\nDebian Developer 
(teTeX/TeXLive)\n")))
  mml-generate-mime-1((part (sign . "pgpmime") (tag-location . 333) (contents . 
"hallo\n-- \nDr. Frank K\xf7cster\nSingle Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein 
Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Z\xf7crich\nDebian Developer 
(teTeX/TeXLive)\n")))
  mml-generate-mime()
  message-encode-message-body()
  message-send-mail(nil)
  message-send-via-mail(nil)
  message-send(nil)
  message-send-and-exit(nil)
  call-interactively(message-send-and-exit)

After that, there's an empty ' *PGG output*' buffer, but no ' *PGG errors*'. 


TIA, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)