[Gpg4win-users-en] [GPGOL] Messages goes not ok decripted by PGP

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Feb 14 09:51:23 CET 2007


On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:38, mergulhao83 at gmail.com said:

> Send an message with Outlook 2003 and GPGol 0.9.91 (gpg4win 1.0.8) and
> open it with Outlook 2000 and PGP 6.5.8.

PGP is wrong as it does not handle UTF-8 encoding correctly.  It
simply assumes everything is Latin-1 encoded.  The OpenPGP standard
requires that text messages are to be UTF-8 encrypted.  We can't do
much about it.  


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner




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