German Umlaut problems (Was: Japanese character file name is not available)

[Thomas Walter]

On 11.10.18 14:24, Santiago Borrazás wrote:
> I hope to not be adding noise to the conversation. I was running into the same issue yesterday in MacOS High Sierra. In this case was with Spanish characters (the filename is “Francés.gpg”).
> 
> My workaround was to replace BSD sed with GNU sed. I did it with Homebrew by running `brew install gnu-sed --with-default-names`. After that when typing `pass` I correctly get the list of stored entries instead of the error "sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence”.

I had not thought of that. But my fix doesn't rely on "skipping" the
wrong letters, but changes the output to be correct in the first place.

Also *bsd users might want to use password-store, but not switch to
gnu-sed.

     Balu

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