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pinentry-w32, no characters garbled
This repository sets up GitHub Action for pinentry-w32 build workflow with small hack to solve garbled characters in non UTF-8 codepage environment.
Screenshots
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Setup
Install
Grab a package (pinentry-w32-ncg-v<version>.zip) from GitHub releases
and extract it to some place (denoted by <EXTRACT_DIR> below).
Configuration
Edit gpg-agent.conf, typically ~/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/gpg-agent.conf, to add;
pinentry-program <EXTRACT_DIR>/pinentry-w32.exe
Patches
Garbled characters fix
0001-Fix-character-garbled-in-non-UTF-8-Windows-environme.patch
- Tries to convert input texts by ANSI codepage (
CP_ACP) first, and then by UTF-8 (CP_UTF8).
Dialog size refinement
0002-Adjust-dialog-and-its-components-size.patch
- Increases dialog width and its components widths so that the whole SSH fingerprint is visible.
- Keep the dialog foreground.