From a17ff4b45e26d273226e1981bcfe2e07089cb5f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yann Leboulanger <asterix@lagaule.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 22:06:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix GPG encoding issues. Fixes #7988

---
 src/common/gpg.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/common/gpg.py b/src/common/gpg.py
index 9da483c00..3e07c873a 100644
--- a/src/common/gpg.py
+++ b/src/common/gpg.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ if HAVE_GPG:
     class GnuPG(gnupg.GPG):
         def __init__(self, use_agent=False):
             gnupg.GPG.__init__(self)
+            self.encoding = 'utf-8'
             self.decode_errors = 'replace'
             self.passphrase = None
             self.use_agent = use_agent