PGP Alternative to Foreign Alphabet Characters

Hello

I live in the Bulgaria-Greece-Turkey area, I want to order something but PGP does not accept/encrypt some of the characters I want to use such as "ç,ö,ş" etc.

What can I use?

Thanks a bunch guys.


Comments


[2 Points] sapiophile:

GPG does indeed support those characters - they are all a part of standard UTF-8 (the most common standard character encoding for OpenPGP systems, and most GNU/Linux and *BSD operating systems).

ç = UTF-8: 0xC3 0xA7
ö = UTF-8: 0xC3 0xB6
ş = UTF-8: 0xC5 0x9F

So something is being done incorrectly, here. What are you using to perform your OpenPGP encryption? You should be using the native GPG on Tails, which is nicely integrated into the system (even into the standard text editor!). That should handle those characters just fine.

It is likely that some aspect of your system is configured to use a character encoding other than UTF-8, which is obviously not a good idea in your case. You should check your system's locale and Character Encoding settings, but the culprit is most likely your GPG settings themselves - on GNU/Linux and *BSD, those are configured in the file ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf typically, by default (~ is shorthand for "the current user's home directory" - and note that the .gnupg directory, because it starts with a dot, is considered "hidden" and so you'll have to show hidden files to view it). I'm not sure how it's done on other operating systems, but you shouldn't be using any other operating systems for this stuff, anyway. In your gpg.conf file, you want the line:

charset utf-8

And you'll also want to find any other lines that start with charset and delete them, or put a hash sign in front of the line, like

#charset Latin-1

Then save the file. You may have to restart some or all of your GPG software for the change to take effect.

It's almost certain that this will fix your problem and allow you to use any UTF-8 characters in your encrypted messages.


[1 Points] delvx:

Use the plain english characters that look like the ones you mention. Most post offices are used to seeing that on international mail.

If the characters are in the anme of your town/city though, Id be more worried than if they are just in your personal name.

Maybe in your PGP message, include a link to the towns name, on wikipedia or something like that, as a footnote.

(I spelled my town name using the English characters because PGP doesnt work with foreign alphabets. Here is my towns name spelled properly, on wikipedia, so you can copy and paste it: http://wikipediablehbleh)


[1 Points] greaterhongkong:

You must to locate the file "gpg.conf" and to add line "charset utf-8" and to delete all other lines of contain "charset". It is possibility that the application for use of PGP is too manually setting charset to be ascii, which is a grave error on the fault of the application. You should engage in the verification of the correct settings for your PGP application in addition to fixing of the gpg.conf file.


[-1 Points] basshead555:

Use a translator to put it into English then pgp I guess