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[Ralph Cohen]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 04:37:56 +0200, Cristian Secara wrote:

>
>There is one bug, PGP-signature related, that affects high-bit ASCII
>characters (PMMail 2000 Pro).
>
>Few days ago I wrote a message in german language, using german
>national characters (=84, =94, =81, =E1).
>Signing (and sending) that message, I found by chance that my (already
>sent) message had all national characters corrupted, something like
>=3D84, =3D81, =3DE1 instead.
>Further testings revealed that the only way to keep the characters
>unchanged, was PMMail -> Properties -> Encoding format =3D Quoted
>printable AND 'Do not perform character set translation' box left
>unchecked (off ? I suspect this switch acts inverse). This was the only=

>valid version, out of four possible.
>Corruption was also not similar on all tests, it depends on the above
>settings combination.
>
>That message and all tests with PMMail -> Properties -> Default
>character set =3D ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2).
>Without signing, national characters were not corrupted in any way.
>

Thanks again, Cristi.  So Noted.

Ralph
rpcohen@neurotron.com