Fwd: allout encryption and non-ascii characters

["Ken Manheimer" <ken.manheimer@gmail.com>]

allout's use of pgg for encryption doesn't provide for non-ascii text,
and encoding is a realm where i seem to have less than zero
cluefulness.  can anyone help me solve the problem posed below?

ken

On 11/1/06, an allout user wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
> I've been an allout user for a very long time. It's wonderful
> software. Thank you.
>
> Today I thought I'd try out the encryption support as I finally
> have a need for it but it doesn't properly handle non-ascii
> characters. pgg-output-buffer is created inside of pgg-gpg with
> mode of raw-text or binary and that is never converted back
> into the charset of the original cleartext. I do a lot of work
> in Japanese and so this is critical.
>
> I look at how gnus uses pgg and its charset handling but even
> in edebug I couldn't quite see how it was doing it correctly
> compared to how allout's method.
>
> If you have any insight I would really appreciate it. I will
> try to debug this in my own time but as you are the
> maintainer/author of the software involved, I hope you can at
> least nudge in me the right direction towards a fix.

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