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@@ -1200,16 +1200,21 @@ also overrides the environment variable "GNUPGHOME".
<term>--charset &ParmName;</term>
<listitem><para>
Set the name of the native character set. This is used
-to convert some strings to proper UTF-8 encoding.
+to convert some strings to proper UTF-8 encoding. If this option is not used, the default character set is determined
+from the current locale. A verbosity level of 3 shows the used one.
Valid values for &ParmName; are:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
-<term>iso-8859-1</term><listitem><para>This is the default Latin 1 set.</para></listitem>
+<term>iso-8859-1</term><listitem><para>This is the Latin 1 set.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>iso-8859-2</term><listitem><para>The Latin 2 set.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+<term>iso-8859-15</term><listitem><para>This is currently an alias for
+the Latin 1 set.</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry>
<term>koi8-r</term><listitem><para>The usual Russian set (rfc1489).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>