Charset of gpg --with-colon

[David Shaw]

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On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 11:05:57PM +0200, Daniel Luebke wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I just needed the output of
> 
> gpg --list-keys --with-colon
> 
> I saw that some keynames are printed in UTF-8 and some with a local
> charset. I thought I somewhere read that --with-colon uses UTF-8, but
> maybe I'm wrong.
> What is the correct charset? And why are there keys that are somewhat
> different. And more importantly: How can I correclty get the names ;-)

The name field of --with-colons is the raw UTF-8 value of the user ID
field, with some values \-escaped.

So, to extract the user name you need to take the value from the field
and replace every occurance of '\xQQ' with the byte QQ.  This results
in the UTF-8 name field.

David
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iD8DBQE+mel14mZch0nhy8kRAtvpAKDJFF/yY2v05jFTUVOCWejV4WK9hwCg4ygh
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