[Gpg4win-users-en] --export creating utf-16 LE?

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Chris,

Am Dienstag 02 April 2024 12:49:57 schrieb Chris Jacobs:
> Using Gpg4win-4.3.1 on command line Windows 11

> PS C:\Users\chris> gpg -a --export test > test
> PS C:\Users\chris> gpg --import test
> gpg: [don't know]: partial length invalid for packet type 63
> gpg: read_block: read error: Ongeldig pakket
> gpg: import from 'test' failed: Ongeldige sleutelring
> gpg: Total number processed: 0

> Looking for the cause I found that gpg --export creates an utf-16 LE
> file and gpg --import expects ascii or utf-8 without bom but not utf-16 LE

thanks for reporting the problem!

I've did some initial testing on Windows 10 and could not reproduce so far.
So maybe this is a Windows 11 only problem, will do a test on such a system 
next.

> The same test file imports good in Kleopatra.

Regards,
Bernhard

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