Changing the charset from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-15 resolves this problem. Do so by opening contact list - edit - accounts - advanced and changing the charset as mentioned above. click apply to reconnect to icq with new charset.
hope it helps :-) -- Confusing error message when ICQ users have different encodings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253452 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
