Text-Encoding in XMPP-Account
Nathan Walp
nwalp at pidgin.im
Fri Nov 23 16:04:08 EST 2007
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.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Offermann
This is most likely a problem with the irc portion of the link. XMPP is
itself entirely UTF-8, so if the IRC laywer were not there, you'd see
the umlauts fine.
-Nathan
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