UTF8 passphrase problem (I think)

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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Tom Hardy wrote:

> Interesting thing here, when I tried pasting and editing your example I
> got stuff like this:
>
> tom at jeeves:~> gpgÿÿ--exportÿÿ{07cf11c6}ÿÿ|ÿÿgpgÿÿ--homeÿÿ~/gpg-junkÿÿ--import
> bash: gpgÿÿ--exportÿÿ{07cf11c6}ÿÿ: command not found
> bash: ÿÿgpgÿÿ--homeÿÿ~/gpg-junkÿÿ--import: No such file or directory
>
> But when I typed it all directly, it worked.  Shows, I guess, that
> character encoding can be non-obvious.  I have your mail available on a
> news spool.  I opened it in a hex editor and the relevant part is all
> ASCII; spaces are 0x20.  I copied my pasted version into the hex
> editor; spaces are 0xa0.  I copied my typed version in and spaces are
> 0x20.  I'm not sure of the significance, but I do suspect I am having
> problems with the encoding, after all.
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and you do have spaces in your passphrase, right?

i would try editing the keys on a different machine... or, maybe load up a 
knoppix-like OS from CD and try editing your keys on that.


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