Pidgin 2.4.0 and offline messages

[Mark Doliner]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:38:11 +0600, N.Novozhilov wrote
> 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
> 
> I'm working on Mandriva 2007.1 box.

Interesting.  What version of GTK+2 do you have installed?

-Mark