C:\Users\Robert J. Hansen\Desktop> gpg --fixed-list-mode --with-colons --list-key 0x3ADBFA6D00A1E6FE
===== [... trimmed ...] uid:-::::1436536488::100E4A12486A5261E374B3B0CA16CF0516F4367C::Ludwig H├╝gelsch├ñfer <lud...@hammernoch.net>: ===== "That's an odd encoding," I said to myself. "It must be UTF-8 presented as ASCII or Windows-1252. Let's look, shall we?" ===== C:\Users\Robert J. Hansen\Desktop> gpg --fixed-list-mode --with-colons --list-key 0x3ADBFA6D00A1E6FE > ludwig.asc C:\Users\Robert J. Hansen\Desktop> python Python 3.6.0 (v3.6.0:41df79263a11, Dec 23 2016, 08:06:12) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> with open("ludwig.asc") as fh: ... bytes = fh.read() ... >>> bytes 'ÿþt\x00r\x00u\x00:\x00:\x001\x00:\x001\x004\x009\x001\x000\x003\x004\x004\x004\x009\x00:\x000\x00:\x003\x00:\x001\x00...' ===== Weirder and weirder. GnuPG is outputting data in UTF-16LE, complete with a correct byte-order mark... but is first taking what is (apparently) the UTF-8 of Ludwig's name, giving each byte a null pair byte, and calling it UTF-16. Looking at the output from just a plain --list-key, it appears correct: ===== \x00H\x00ü\x00g\x00e\x00l\x00s\x00c\x00h\x00ä\x00f\x00e\x00r ===== So -- what's the canonically approved way to convert this mangled form back into Unicode? Is this mangled form a deliberate design choice, or is this a bug? _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users