Re: allout encryption and non-ascii characters

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

On 11/1/06, Ken Manheimer <ken.manheimer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

i should add, allout uses a temporary buffer where it encrypts and
decrypts the target text, and i tried setting
buffer-file-coding-system in the temporary buffer to that of the
original buffer.  that doesn't seem to help.

> 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.
>
> --
> ken
> ken.manheimer@gmail.com
> http://myriadicity.net
>


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