[Pidgin] #6976: Encoding problem in Pidgin with GTK+ 2.12.8 rev a

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#6976: Encoding problem in Pidgin with GTK+ 2.12.8 rev a
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 Reporter:  xtonda  |        Owner:  MarkDoliner
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new        
Milestone:          |    Component:  AIM        
  Version:  2.5.1   |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:          |  
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Comment(by datallah):

 Replying to [comment:6 xtonda]:
 > This is log, when using older GTK+ to 2.12.1 rev b and the same
 character sequence (ěščřžýáíé) is displayed correctly in Pidgin:
 >
 > {{{
 > (10:57:55) oscar: aim_icq_getstatusnote: requesting status note for
 157643456.
 > (10:57:57) oscar: incomingim_ch1: unknown TLV 0x0013 (len 1)
 > (10:57:57) oscar: Received IM from xtondacze with 1 parts
 > (10:57:57) oscar: Parsing IM part, charset=0x0000, charsubset=0x0000,
 datalen=70
 > (10:57:57) oscar: Conversion from ASCII failed: Invalid byte sequence in
 conversion input.
 > }}}

 I'm confused; the sent text isn't ASCII and regardless of GTK+ version, I
 don't think it should be converted successfully.  It sounds like it might
 have been a bug in the older iconv implementation that allowed it to work
 previously.

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