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On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Fabien Penso wrote:

>  > PGP (RFC 1991/2440) means plain (Open)PGP blobs inserted into mail without
>  > any MIME awareness at all.  It is what Mailcrypt natively supports.  
>  > PGP/MIME (RFC 2015/3156) is PGP with MIME awareness.  Oort has supported
>  > PGP/MIME for some time, using gpg.el or Mailcrypt as the backend.
> 
>  > With a few more menu items and commands added to Gnus, such as "Insert
>  > Public Key", I don't have to use the Mailcrypt menu hooks at all.
> 
> Good ! Mailcrypt doesn't support sig with international characters
> (which sux). If Gnus now does, I'll be able to use plain text sign for
> my usenet posts.

The PGP/MIME standard allows non-ASCII, so this should already work.  If
people like PGP and/or MIME on the UseNet is a different question though,
and the answer seems to depend on what hierarchy you are in.