Passphrase of GPG-generated key not accepted

[Daniel Link]

Hi,

I have German umlauts (öäü) and other special characters in my password
to increase security. The key itself was created with gpg on a terminal
emulator. This is an example key which raises the same problem:

<sec_key.asc content begins below this line>
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* ACHTUNG: Diese Datei enthÀlt eine Sicherheitskopie Ihres             *
*          geheimen SchlÃŒssels.                                        *
* Bewahren Sie sie an einem sicheren Ort auf.                          *
************************************************************************

Der in dieser Datei gesicherte SchlÃŒssel ist:

pub   1024D/EECF083D 2005-08-13 [expires: 2005-09-12]
  Schl.-Fingerabdruck = D225 5118 C06B E863 846D  BD0E 0072 5D71 EECF 083D
uid                  Daniel Link (This key is for testing purpose only)
<example at example.net>
sub   2048g/5A4D2532 2005-08-13 [expires: 2005-09-12]


-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)

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eZAT+N4w
=V2E1
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

-----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)

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9yhwlqWU/8sJMrU=
=yN/i
-----END PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----ins below this line>
<sec_key.asc content ends here>

It will expire in one month. I think this will be enough time to track
down the problem. If not, please send an email to my email address
_directly_ and I will create a new one as soon as possible. The password
is: K3ineK!nderspielengerneFlöte
As far as I know I've used the ISO-8859-15 character encoding. This
message was also created with that encoding. The version of GPA
installed on my computer is 0.7.0-r2. I use GPG 1.4.1 as you can easily
see from above. The system is Gentoo Linux.

Which encoding does GPA use for backups? The umlaut from "Schlüssel"
which means key isn't displayed correctly (see lines 2, 4 and 9).

In addition GPA crashes when I try to backup a key and not enter a
filename manually but select file and directory (segfault). I tried but
didn't manage to compile from sources with debugging symbols. There's no
configure option and I have no idea which file I have to alter / which
arguments I have to pass to the compiler to do so.

Bye,

  Daniel Link