[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:       
 Component:  ICQ       |     Version:  2.0.1
Resolution:            |    Keywords:       
   Pending:  0         |  
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Comment (by beret):

 Additional discovery: To most other clients (notably ICQ 5.1, ICQ 6,
 Miranda, or another QIP), QIP 2005 sends messages in UTF-8 (not in UTF-
 16BE as seen above) and with '''correct conversion'''. Something makes QIP
 determine which encoding it will be using. If we find out how to make QIP
 send UTF-8 messages to Pidgin too, this problem could go away – it is very
 painful for Czech Pidgin users because there could be about 40% of them
 using QIP 2005 every day.

 The key might be client capabilities. Pidgin shows up in QIP having only a
 few of them (however, UTF-8 is listed among those), and having protocol
 version 0, whilst Miranda has version 8, official ICQ client has 9 and QIP
 has version 11.

 (It has been affirmed by the QIP developers that the bug in QIP 2005 is
 present, but they refuse to fix it because the upcoming version of QIP is
 free of this bug. However, QIP Infium has not yet been released.)

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