Re: Problems with UTF-8 in changelog

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> schrieb:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:41:51PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> schrieb:
>> > dpkg-parsechangelog seems to have parsed it fine.  Perhaps your terminal
>> > does not support UTF-8?
>> 
>> Hm, I could check this. However, what made me look at the output of
>> dpkg-parsechangelog was that signing failed because the secret key for
>> this strange guy (Frank KÃ?ster) couldn't be found...
>
> That would probably be because the name on your GPG key is not in UTF-8.
> You can add a new uid which has the name in UTF-8, or you can use the -k
> option to specify the key to sign with.

There's a third possibility:

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -sgpg -p"gpg --charset utf-8"

Thank you (also to Andreas for more info about the terminal stuff),

Frank

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Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie