Feature Requests item #1061178, was opened at 2004-11-05 15:57 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1061178&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Shoshannah Forbes (xslf) Assigned to: Gary Kramlich (amc_grim) Summary: Allow setting of encoding per buddy Initial Comment: Gaim 1.0.2 on gentoo linux- Gaim now allows setting of the encoding of the chat in ICQ, however, the setting is global to all the buddies (it is done via the accounts setting). As many ICQ clients use different encodings for Hebrew (mainly Windows-1255, utf-8 and utf-16), regardless of what is chosen in the account settings, some buddies will have truble communicating with you. The solution would be to allow setting the encoding per buddy, and not globally for the ICQ account. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-09 21:15 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 Originator: NO As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Paul Boley (pboley) Date: 2006-04-06 16:02 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=447775 I for one simply cannot use Gaim any longer because of encoding issues with ICQ. I'd also like request the same thing as the original poster: a per-user encoding setting. Licq allows this to be done, and it is simply an option in the message window. While I'm not a fan of Qt or Licq, I'm forced to use it, in order to be able to talk to half the people on my list. This is the sole reason I no longer use ICQ, and I'm sure I'm not the only one! It really is the better client. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Shoshannah Forbes (xslf) Date: 2004-11-09 15:01 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1047373 Hmm... why didn't my search bring up that bug? Anyway, I am not clear how the reporter there wants in implemented. xchat does not allow having a pre-deinfed encoding setting per channel (which would be the eqwivlent of this bug) but per server (similar to what we already have). So I don't see how that bug will fix this issue. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Alexandre Horst (alehorst) Date: 2004-11-09 14:46 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=799194 alehorst->xslf: Have you seen the bug/rfe 849942? I think could be a solution for your problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Atallah (datallah) Date: 2004-11-08 08:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=325843 This, of course, is an RFE, not a bug. (I'm sure that some people will disagree, but this boils down to the whole ICQ encoding nastiness). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Shoshannah Forbes (xslf) Date: 2004-11-05 16:12 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1047373 forgot to add- ideally, if a user would be able to set an encoding for a buddy, gaim should attempt and use that encoding for the offline message from that buddy as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Shoshannah Forbes (xslf) Date: 2004-11-05 16:10 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1047373 This is worse when it comes to offline messages: If I set my encoding to Windows-1255, and someone sends a message in utf-8, I get an error of: "(There was an error receiving this message. The buddy you are speaking to most likely has a buggy client.)" While windows-1255 offline messages go through fine. On the other hand, if I set my encoding to utf-8, when someones sends me a utf-8 message, the text goes thrugh fine, while a windows-1255 message give the error: "(There was an error receiving this message. The buddy you are speaking to most likely has a buggy client.)" If gaim can't translate the offline message to the current encoding, at least give me it as-is, so I can attempt to convert it manully. However, with this error, I don't even have a "junk" message to work with, and the offline message is completly lost. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1061178&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features
