Encoding bug in Windows version (ICQ)

[Daniel Atallah]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Frank Lanitz <linux at partysoke.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:27:10 -0500
> "Daniel Atallah" <daniel.atallah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Jens Franik <jens_ at gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Guten Tag Mark Doliner,
> > >
> > > am Montag, 10. März 2008 um 07:53 schrieben Sie:
> > >
> > > >> >> I've just installed the latest build for Windows (2.4.0) and
> > > >> >> now I'm unable to receive any ICQ messages.
> > >
> > > >> > This has been fixed for the next release.
> > >
> > > >> When the next release is gonna be available?
> > >
> > > > That has not been determined yet.
> > >
> > > Maybe it could be possible, that you intermediate a bug-fix-version?
> >
> >
> > As a workaround, you can simply downgrade your GTK+ runtime to the
> > older 2.12.1 rev. B, which is available on the sourceforge download
> > site.
>
> This doesn't solve the issue in genereal. I migrated complete back to
> 2.3.1 (including GTK) and this issue still occurred from time to time.
> I'm still investigating on why.


In that situation, the error message displayed is probably accurate; my
understanding is that many ICQ clients send messages with different
encodings (and the encoding itself isn't specified).  If you set your
account encoding to match that of the people you're talking it, that should
prevent these errors from occurring.

-D
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