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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #704495 +++ Created attachment 498757 [details] garbled output from gpg when asking for password Description of problem: gnupg2 requires usage of agent to retrieve key passphrase. Console version of this agent doesn't seem to support UTF-8 properly - see the attached screenshot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnupg2-2.0.14-4.el6.i686 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: Use gpg on a key which contains non-ascii characters in its name. Actual results: The output is garbled Expected results: The output is clean. Additional info: Detected on ScientificLinux 6 but I guess this is also a case on RHEL. --- Additional comment from tmraz on 2011-05-13 14:17:14 CEST --- I do not think this is a bug in the gnupg2. I suppose there is non-utf8 locale set in the gnupg2 agent environment. Can you call 'unset GPG_AGENT_INFO' before runing the gpg2 command and test it again? --- Additional comment from tomasz.kepczynski on 2011-05-13 18:51:08 CEST --- I don't think this is a reason: triss:~> set | grep GPG triss:~> But to make sure I am not missing anything, I tried: triss:~> unset GPG_AGENT_INFO triss:~> gpg -d ~/pliki/txt/dane.txt.asc with exactly the same problem as in the screenshot. And locale for completness: triss:~> locale LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_TIME="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_NAME="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Now, the problem looks very similar to fault in finger, which also garbled UTF-8 output, this was caused by outputting a string byte by byte with putc instead pushing whole string at once to terminal. Maybe this is the case? --- Additional comment from tmraz on 2011-05-16 07:45:22 CEST --- What terminal do you use? --- Additional comment from tomek on 2011-05-16 20:35:54 CEST --- I can reproduce this on: - local text console (linux) - remote linux console (text console + ssh connection) - local konsole (kde konsole) - remote konsole (kde konsole + ssh) konsole identifies itself as xterm (TERM=xterm) --- Additional comment from tomek on 2011-05-16 20:41:06 CEST --- I take back local konsole part - in this case dialog box is displayed and my name is displayed correctly. --- Additional comment from tmraz on 2011-05-16 21:14:21 CEST --- The terminal output is handled by pinentry. --- Additional comment from tomek on 2011-05-17 10:17:11 CEST --- Created attachment 499280 [details] pinentry-curses garbled output --- Additional comment from tomek on 2011-05-17 10:18:55 CEST --- I tried the following in pinentry-curses: gklab-63-001:~> pinentry-curses OK Your orders please option lc-ctype=pl_PL.UTF-8 OK setdesc ąćęłńóśźżĄĆĘŁŃÓŚŹŻ OK getpin which resulted in the attached above screen. This seems to confirm that a problem is in pinentry. --- Additional comment from sochotni on 2011-07-18 11:10:30 CEST --- The bug can be reproduced in also in RHEL 6. Thank you for the bugreport.
Created attachment 514695 [details] Patch fixing the bug I have prepared a relatively simple patch that solves the problem accoring to my testing. It consists of 2 things: 1. link against libncursesw 2. call setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") before initialising ncurses I sent the patch upstream for comments
thanks. For posterity, how did you contact upstream? via bug tracker? mailing list? in particular, can you include a reference to that contact here?
Sure, forgot to add it to my previous comment: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gpa-dev/2011-July/002513.html
FYI, another fix has been committed in upstream: http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pinentry.git;a=commit;h=e2b89cbd
Any chance to backport it? that may be worth considering if the upstream release cycle is too long...
Sure, just need to carve out some time to work on it.
New upstream version with the fix has been released last week: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2012-August/045186.html
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