Different locale for pinentry

[Klaus Ethgen]

Hi,

Am Mo den  6. Apr 2026 um 13:12 schrieb chris at anthum.com:
> > Is there any way to start [pinentry] GUI ... with UTF-8-locale instead of
> > something else?
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> echo "??????  Latin-1 Test  ??????"
> LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-1 pinentry --ttyname /dev/tty <<'EOF'
> SETDESC Latin-1 test: Héllo ??? wörk? ?????????
> SETPROMPT Pässwörd:
> GETPIN
> BYE
> EOF
> 
> echo "??????  UTF-8 Test  ??????"
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 pinentry --ttyname /dev/tty <<'EOF'
> OPTION lc-ctype en_US.UTF-8
> SETTTYNAME /dev/tty
> SETTTYTYPE xterm-256color
> SETDESC UTF-8 test: Héllo ??? wörk? ?????????
> SETPROMPT Pässwörd:
> GETPIN
> BYE
> EOF

They give the same result. I tried it once saving the file as latin1
where both versions are identical and the same (but different, correct
output) when I save it as utf8.

So I guess that gpg-agent needs to use different encoding.

Regards
   Klaus
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