openpgp / 8bit / armor

[John Kane]

rfc2440, section 3.4:
  The default character set for text is the UTF-8 [RFC2279]
  encoding of Unicode [ISO10646].

rfc2440, section 6.2:
   Currently defined Armor Header Keys are:
...
  "Charset"  ...  Please note that OpenPGP defines text to be
  in UTF-8 by default.

rfc2440, section 2.4:
   An application that implements OpenPGP for messaging
   SHOULD implement OpenPGP-MIME.

References:
   http://www.imc.org/draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc2440bis  (v.02)
   http://www.imc.org/draft-ietf-openpgp-mime

     Mutz> It should _not_ allow 8bit ...
     Mutz> What do the GnuPG folks say? (cc'ing)
Please cc to the other list.  :-)