Pidgin 2.4.0 and offline messages

[N.Novozhilov]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:40:15 -0500
"Mark Doliner" <mark at kingant.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 09:55:57 -0500, Ethan Blanton wrote
> > N.Novozhilov spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > > Pidgin 2.4.0 don't support offline messages with national
> > > codeset, in spite of your advertising. I test this just after
> > > installing new version. Offline messages on Russian seems like
> > > this:
> > 
> > I'm not sure what "advertising" you're citing, but we'll see what we
> > can do about this.  There have been quite a few fixes to ICQ offline
> > messaging lately, but it still requires that you configure your 
> > Pidgin properly, and that the other user is using certain versions 
> > (I'm not sure which) of the _official client_.  If the remote user 
> > is using Trillian, Miranda, etc., offline messaging is likely to
> > not work, as these clients do _not_ always behave the same as the 
> > official client.
> > 
> > > respondent: ???????? ????? (There was an error receiving this
> > > message. Either you and 112565452 have different encodings
> > > selected, or 112565452 has a buggy client.)
> > > 
> > > Respondent and me use UTF-8 version of messengers.
> > > On-line conversation are OK.
> > 
> > What are "UTF-8 version of messengers"?  What is your encoding set
> > to in the account editor for this account?  What is your buddy's 
> > encoding set to, and/or what "nationality" of messenger are they
> > using?
> 
> It seems like this might somehow be related to the build of GTK we're
> shipping with the Windows version of Pidgin 2.4.0.  See
> http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4965
> 
> Maybe the build of GTK doesn't have support for UCS-2BE or something?
> 
> -Mark
> 
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