Error message when installing GNUPG

[kbelnekar]

Hi,

I am not sure if I should be posting this message here. If I shouldnt, I apologize.

One of the developers in my team is trying to install and run GNUPG and is getting the following error message

# gpg
gpg: conversion from `utf-8' to `roman8' not available
gpg: Go ahead and type your message ...

I do not have much of an idea on what is going on but Googling this did not help a lot.

We tried following the link below, but it did not the issue.
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2005-January/021804.html

Any suggestions ?

Thank you !

[Steven Schweda]

The answer could depend on the GnuPG version,
but, looking at the source for 1.4.7, I'd
guess that you have an environment variable
like LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, or LANG defined as
"roman8", and one of the iconv_open() calls
failed. (See util/strgutil.c.)

I don't know enough about the iconv stuff to
suggest an actual solution.

> We tried following the link below, but it
> did not the issue.

What, exactly, did you try?

[Steven Schweda]

The answer could also depend on the HP-UX
version. Is that a secret, too?

[Ben Dehner]

I see the same message after installing GnuPG 1.4.7 on 11.23/IT. (I didn't want to try and download and compile all of the junk required for GnuPG 2.x.) I have not been able to resolve the cause of this message, so I have just been ignoring it. The processes that we need GnuPG for seem to run fine despite this message.