wk>..used to create an rfc2015 compliant message. Some wk>translations of GnuPG do translate the default comment wk>string and then you might see non ascii characters. The PGP/MIME people were surprised to hear that some implementations emit non-7-bit text in 'ascii' headers. QUESTION: do any versions of gnupg have non-7-bit characters in the 'VERSION:' line?