Thanks, I'll try, but seeing gnome in the name I am quite skeptical. It's really nothing personal. Its just in my experience gnome/gtk apps could never handle cyrillic well enough in all situations..
Yea, cyrillic is a bitch. Its probably worse than chineese, no really :). These guys were later to the game, so even though they have like tons of variants and intrinsically more complex stuff, at least they got it right. With cyrillic we have like 4 different encodings for the very same thing, and 3 of them are widely used (ironically, the one not used much is the "official standard", well, as usual :)). So, you can imagine people having set their environment to one encoding, client reporting another and, to top it off, messages getting recoded while on the server (at least I can see a difference when some poeple shift to direct mode after having logged in, versus messaged left on server when somebody is out.. Well, that might be a server screwing some reported settings, but that does not help.). As you can guess, I can't wait for the last non-utf-8 aware app to die painfull death :) (whell, where this kind of stuff is important of course). Interestingly kde-based stuff somehow works most of the time, and when it does not, you can force the right encoding for that particular user (at least for both kopete and sim, not so with gaim). Ok, I better stop bitching and go fix some more bugs :), but thanks for the suggestion anyway.. George On Monday, 19. December 2005 18:53, Olivier Crete wrote: > On Mon, 2005-19-12 at 12:19 +0100, George Shapovalov wrote: > > Ugh, it is the only one that reliably connects to icq (yea, I am stuck > > using it for many people whom I contact as this is pretty much the only > > protocol "honored" there) *and* handles various encodings in a sane way > > (no, gaim, while been really nice on a protocol side, does not cut it on > > localization side, not even close. And kopete is the other way around > > :)).. > > You may want to try GnomeICU for ICQ. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
