[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 eugene2k):

 00 means that it will be just "ASCII" code(main codepage symbol)
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 ASCII is a character table that goes up to 127. The rest is reserved.


 So in windows you will see ї, but not this "¿" strange symbol.
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 You don't have different characters in unicode which depend on the active
 codepage. That's the whole point of the standard: to not have codepages.
 What you have instead is a set of standardized unicode symbols, with the
 turned question mark being 0x00bf. Check the symbol table in windows
 yourself if you don't beleive me.

 If qip displays 0x00BF as (ї), then it's a qip problem, because it surely
 isn't in the utf-16 standard. Moreover qip must be doing something
 additionally to replace the characters it recieves.

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