Pidgin 2.4.0 and offline messages

[N.Novozhilov]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 09:55:57 -0500
Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> 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.

1. Pingin is configured by the only one existing setting - Encoding:
    UTF-8
2. I can't bid to all my respondent what messenger they have to use,
especially to my bosses. And most my respondents use Miranda Unicode,
qip with UTF-8 encoding and Gaim/Libgaim (Mac)/Pidgin/Licq.
Are you living in an ideal world?

3. I have conversations with english-speaking people (without problems,
sure) and russian-speaking (with problems) - only. Can I patch or
change by some other way Pidgin behavior of interpretation of incoming
messages? To let he know that If received message isn't ASCII-7 so it's
russian by default.

> 
> > 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?
> 
> Ethan
> 
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> 


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