[Pidgin] #2701: Log paths for non-ascii account / buddy names can be too long ( > 255 characters)

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#2701: Log paths for non-ascii account / buddy names can be too long ( > 255
characters)
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  Reporter:  bl_beard         |       Owner:  rlaager                            
      Type:  defect           |      Status:  new                                
  Priority:  minor            |   Milestone:                                     
 Component:  winpidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.1.0                              
Resolution:                   |    Keywords:  Could not create log file meanwhile
   Pending:  0                |  
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Comment (by rlaager):

 Replying to [comment:5 datallah]:
 > One major benefit of encoding the filename is that the filenames are the
 same on all platforms.  On Windows (except 98, which I don't really care
 about), Unicode filenames are fine, but on Linux, filenames are encoded
 according to G_FILENAME_ENCODING and G_BROKEN_FILENAMES and not
 necessarily UTF-8.  By encoding the filename, we don't have to worry about
 any of this.

 Of course. However, it's clear that the combination of Sametime's long
 names, non-ASCII characters, and URL-encoding are a problem.

 We could use a more compact encoding: Punycode might be useful here.

 Maybe we should add a logging preference for this that determined how we
 wrote the filenames? On read, we could try both names???

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