[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 kostyantyn):

 Replying to [comment:92 elb]:
 > 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.
 >
 00 means that it will be just "ASCII" code(main codepage symbol). On
 Cyrillic windows ASCII codepage = cp1251 codepage. So in windows you will
 see ї, but not this "¿" strange symbol. But on my linux box instead of ї,
 є, і maybe some others and their capital equivalents I see symbols from
 normal ASCII codepage, which is confusing sometimes(when you see in square
 or other strange symbols)
 > What client is producing these messages that you're pasting?  I strongly
 suspect it is not the official ICQ client.
 yes. It's qip problem, I saw a lot of people has this problem. I have
 cp1251 configured for icq in pidgin, but this doesn't help. In some cases
 qip option CI(you can find it in config file) can change situation, but by
 default it isn't correct(I think it change symbol coding method or so that
 all symbols are in UTF16).

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