The profile path contains Chinese characters, which makes it impossible to determine the home directory.

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When the Windows 10 administrator account has a Chinese name, it can cause Chinese characters to appear in the Gpg4win profile path.
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This can cause Gpg4win to not find the profile file. “The home directory of gnupg cannot be determined. Please specify the GNUPGHOME environment variable.”
As shown in the attached image:
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Welcome to this forum, @WongWong!

Which version of Gpg4win are you using?

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gpg4win 4.3.0
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Hi @WongWong,
thanks for the report!

Do you know an easy way to create a profile path with such characters on a German or Englisch Windows 10 system?

Do you know if the problem is also there or Windows 11?

Best Regards,
Bernhard