[Alpine-info] GPG and charset

[Matt Ackeret]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Olaf Skibbe wrote:

> non-ascii characters in encrypted mails I send. Another possibility would be

> to add some characters (öäß) below the encrypted message. This would bring

> alpine to indicate utf-8. Is there a possibility to do this?


You could just put them in your .signature.


> In addition, I like to point out my main question again: Is alpine acting

> properly in this case? 


I have no idea... but it seems to me it's acting at the very least
"reasonably", since _as sent_ the text is only ASCII.  How is alpine to know
that you really have encoded Unicode in there?