UTF-8 support

[Samuel ]slund]

On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 09:21:01AM +0200, mus1876 at gmx.info wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> can anyone tell me why when setting utf-8 for cmd.exe, gpg switches back to
> its default character set. In cmd.exe I do the follwoing to change the
> codepage:
> 
> chcp
> 
> For Windows XP Pro wiht German locale and True Type Font Lucida Console in
> cmd.exe set this gives the OEM-Multilingual Latin I charset:
> 
> Active Codepage: 850.
> 
> Entering chcp 650001 (which stands for UTF-8) results in:
> 
> Active Codepage: 65001.
> 
> I now try for example to clearsign a UTF-8 encoded text file with gpg in
> verbose mode:
> 
> gpg -vvv --clearsign test.txt
> 
> The program's first response is:
> 
> gpg: conversion from `utf-8' to `CP65001' not available
> gpg: using character set `iso-8859-1'
> 
> What kind of setup (charset, file encoding) would you recommend in general.
> I thougt that gpg fully supports UTF-8. At least according to the manpage.