ICQ away messages

[Knut Lorenzen]

Hello,

I noticed that Pidgin and Adium both have difficulties displaying  
status messages from ICQ 5 clients (some characteres don't display  
correctly), and ICQ 5 doesn't display Adium/Pidgin status messages at  
all. This problem persists for a while now, while other open source  
IMs like Miranda and Kopete seem to have solved that problem.

I did some research with wireshark and found out that all clients  
except Adium/Pidgin use a new method to retrieve away messages. This  
method is not supported by libpurple, so ICQ 5 doesn't display the  
away message.

Using the old method to retrieve an away message from an ICQ 5 user  
still workds, but non-ascii characters are sent in some unknown  
encoding. This should also be fixed by implementing that new method.

Here's a list of tickets, I think they should be merged:
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/582
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/931
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/1277
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/2132
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/2229
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/2286

Just let me know in what way I can help you out, I'd like to finally  
have my buddys read my away message ;)

best regards,

Knut Lorenzen