On Mon, 2005-19-12 at 21:08 +0100, George Shapovalov wrote: > 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).
Modern ICQ is either unicode or specifies the encoding (but as a windows locale and not a regular encoding..). Old ICQ sucks and you have to guess.. If you have problems with GnomeICU.. please file a bug at bugzilla.gnome.org .. I'm the upstream maintainer too... -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
