[Gpg4win-users-en] --export incompatible with --import

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Dienstag, 2. April 2024 12:49:57 CEST Chris Jacobs wrote:
> 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
> PS C:\Users\chris>
> 
> 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

I suspect that this is a "feature" of the output redirection in PowerShell. 
Use the --output option with --export to avoid problems caused by output 
redirection.

For Kleopatra we have recently added support for different UTF encodings when 
importing certificates.

Regards,
Ingo
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