Changing my username in pub/sec key

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:50:21 +0200, Juergen Vollmer said:

> Hi,

> I used german Umlaut in my user name given for my keys. Now I realize, that
> they do not show up propperly. How can I change my name? --edit-key allows only
> to adduid and deluid, but not to modify a uid.

You can't change the name because it is public.  You can revoke your
name by revoking the self signature (revsig).  OTOH, I won't change
the name just becuase it is not displayed correctly.  I assume that
your local character set is ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) and that i the
default character set GnuPG uses - so your name should be encoded
correctly.

However, due to changes in glibc/gettext some things are currently
broken.  If you set LANG=C your name should be displayed correctly.
The next version will fix that.  I have heard that PGP is not able to
display usernames correctly (they are UTF-8 encoded).

Ciao,

  Werner

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