It seems that we removed the support for the BOM at some point in the past. Probably because config files are anyway suppossed to be utf-8 encoded.

Fixed by reverting to 2.5.5

Problem is that Kleopatra uses the latest libassuan from Git and not the released version. Replacing the libassuan DLL with the one from the gnupg directory fixes the bug.

The actual problem at hand is that the nonce is not correct. The UI-Server is actually started but if a client (or the self-test) connects the connection succeeded but then the server needs to check the nonce which does not match. Procmon shows that there is only one nonce writen - so the problem might be that the server has different copies of the nonce.

Please update to a recent gnupg versions. 2.3.3 or if you really need the LTS version use 2.2.40. Instead of using a log you can import on the command line:

Oh well, in case you mean the diagnostic output things are different. gpg uses the code page as returned by GetConsoleOutputCP becuase we are a console program. Qt might assume that GetACP is used (as for GUis and thus we get a wrong codepage. You may try to run "chcp 65001" before starrting kleopatra or figure out how to convince Qt to set the codepage to 65001 (utf-8)

gpg always used UTF-8 the option to enable this is the default for more than a decade.

I guess we can close this one.

A real fix will be in the next gpgrt release

No. We now ignore expired key with --mirror, --create, and --install-key.

Windows accepts forward slashes in all API calls. Users are sometimes confused by this but this is a documented feature for ages in the API.

The log file is intended to be an URL. Thus forward slash is fine.

Thanks for reporting. We usually test by moving the <keygrip>.key files around ;-)

Actually we should switch from putenv to SetEnvironmentVariable et al. because that avoids problems wit different Windows libc versions, for example in DLLs.

There are other uses of MD5 and thus we can't disable it. For example gpgsm also lists the MD5 fingerprint of certificates because they are still in use at some places.