[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
Milestone:          |       Component:  ICQ
  Version:  2.0.1   |      Resolution:     
 Keywords:          |   Launchpad_bug:     
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Comment(by elb):

 Replying to [comment:91 kostyantyn]:
 > it's not an UTF-8, it's UTF-16. As we can see from this examples( main
 text are in UTF-16):
 > 1) word "hedgehog" - (ї)жак
 >
 > {{{
 > 00 BF 04 36 04 30 04 3A
 > }}}

 What you are describing isn't UTF-16, it's madness.  U+00BF is not ï, it
 is ¿.  Same for the other text you posted.  UTF-16 (nor any Unicode
 encoding) does not work the way you describe.  The text that eugene2k
 pasted is indeed valid UTF-8.

 > - that all strage displaying simbols starts from 00. It means that it
 will use main codepage to interpret them. For windows configured to use
 Cyrillic, main codepage is cp1251. So when we extracting symbols from it
 we get ї, Є and і.

 What client is producing these messages that you're pasting?  I strongly
 suspect it is not the official ICQ client.

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