Different locale for pinentry

[Matthias Apitz]

El día lunes, abril 06, 2026 a las 12:35:41a. m. +0100, Klaus Ethgen escribió:

> Hi,
> 
> I always use locale latin1. But when pinentry is in use, it starts some
> GUI boxes, which nee UTF-8. The most annoying here is the word "Z?hler"
> instead of Zähler.
> 
> Is there any way to start GUI stuff with UTF-8-locale instead of
> something else? Alternatively, the whole gpg-agent or any pinentry could
> be made started with UTF-8.

Hello,

You coul try to configure a shellscript in gpg-agent which sets the
cnvironment and launches the real pinentry command.

HIH

	matthias

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