Text-Encoding in XMPP-Account

[Luke Schierer]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:57:59AM +0100, Stefan Offermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there an option to change the text-encoding of an XMPP-account?
> 
> My Buddy and I both run pidgin on Windows, using irc-over-xmpp to get 
> into an IRC-Channel. While my Umlauts (ä, ö, ü) are correctly displayed 
> in the chat-window, the umlauts on his machine are "corrupted" chars, 
> his umlauts on my screen are not shown at all.
> 
> Is this a problem with the text encoding in xmpp, in irc or is it a 
> problem of the ejabberd-server providing irc-over-xmpp?
> 
> I hope someone can help with this weird problem.
> 

How are you inserting those characters?

luke