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Re: [openpgp] Character encodings

Stephen Paul Weber <singpolyma@singpolyma.net> Tue, 17 March 2015 15:50 UTC

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>4880 says that everything should be UTF-8.  However, the reality is that
>UTF8 is not used everywhere and there are lots of clients that compose
>messages in their native preferred character set (Latin5, Greek, Kanji,
>etc)

But a conforming OpenPGP implementation should convert this to UTF-8 before 
encrypt/sign if using text packets.

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