[Pidgin] #1645: ICQ Encoding Problems

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#1645: ICQ Encoding Problems
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  Reporter:  I4ko      |       Owner:  elb  
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new  
  Priority:  critical  |   Milestone:  2.4.2
 Component:  ICQ       |     Version:  2.0.1
Resolution:            |    Keywords:       
   Pending:  0         |  
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Comment (by elb):

 Replying to [comment:65 kalin]:
 > 1. cannot read Bulgarian from different people, although they read me
 fine:
 > ????????  (There was an error receiving this message.  Either you and
 27****26 have different encodings selected, or 27*****26 has a buggy
 client.)

 This is not exactly a bug -- it's a usability problem, but it's simply a
 configuration problem.  You need to set your encoding (in the account
 modify dialog) to an appropriate setting.  Probably CP1251 or Windows-1251
 for Bulgarian, although I can't be sure of that.

 > 2. if I send MSG in Bulgarian when a buddy is offline, it gets garbled
 at their end, although we communicate in Bulgarian when on-line

 I believe this is in fact a bug, although I believe offline messages work
 sometimes.  Offline messages, status messages, invitations, etc. are where
 I believe we have remaining encoding problems which are more than simply
 difficult configuration problems.

 > 3. some status MSGs in Bulgarian (I suppose) are shown garbled in
 pidgin.

 Ditto above.

 > My client is set to UTF-8 all of the time.
 > I can take a packet dump, if somebody is willing to cooperate on the
 Windows side, preferably knowing Bulgarian/Russian.
 > My icq is 289594325, on-line usually evenings in JST (GMT+09:00)
 timezone.

 This is the biggest problem we have, is finding people using official
 clients to test against.

 Ethan

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