Charset of gpg --with-colon

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Sunday 13 April 2003 23:05, Daniel Luebke wrote:
> 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 user ids are output literally, i. e. exactly as they are stored in=20
the public key. According to the OpenPGP standard user ids must be=20
encoded in utf-8. But unfortunately keys created with older PGP version=20
(5 and 6, maybe also 7) encoded the user id in local encoding instead=20
of utf-8. AFAIK gpa has some heuristics to find out if utf-8 encoding=20
or another encoding was used.

Regards,
Ingo


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