Bug: 1.0.5: High-ASCII characters in user IDs not properly displayed

[Florian Weimer]

Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> writes:

> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Thomas Gebhardt wrote:
> 
> > User IDs floating around. Shouldn't it be possible to import
> > these keys into gnupg, converting the User ID into UTF-8?
> 
> You can't convert them because they are signed and furthermore
> there is no way to figure out which character set was used.  

Perhaps we could assume that the string is encoded in ISO-8859-1 if
this assumption doesn't lead to control characters in the string?
This seems to be a rather safe bet.