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

pinentry-w32	pinentry-w32-ncg

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.