Validation of User ID with invalid (non UTF-8) encoding

2014-04-29 Thread martijn.list
Hi, Some keys stored on the public key servers have User IDs which seem to be encoded with a different encoding than UTF-8. For example the key with key ID 0xA8364AC589C44886 shows an invalid character when viewed online: http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=0xA8364AC589C44886 gpg is able to va

Re: Validation of User ID with invalid (non UTF-8) encoding

2014-04-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:11, martijn.l...@gmail.com said: > Some keys stored on the public key servers have User IDs which seem to > be encoded with a different encoding than UTF-8. Right. Old PGP versions didn't care about the requirement for utf-8 and used whatever the terminal was configured to