gpg: conversion from `utf-8' to `CP0' not available

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri Dec 17 20:02:13 CET 2004


On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:03:59 +0200, Bernhard Bodenstorfer said:

> gpg: conversion from `utf-8' to `646' not available

You should set your locale correctly.  IIRC, 646 means plain 7 bit
ASCII and thus mapping of any 8 bit character set is not possible.

> I am calling gpg from the command line and did try various settings of --display-charset and --charset on the command line. No success.

Check your OS manuals on how to set the locale.

Hth,

 Werner




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