Thancs for the reply! But I have not declared another encoding. I think UTF-8 "knows" the german umlauts, is that wrong?
Jabber software development list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 15.10.04 11:23:12: > > Hi Jana! > > Jana von dem Berge schrieb am 2004-10-15 10:58:44: > > I'm running jabberd 1.4.3 and I have Problems with german umlauts. > > When I send a message with a Client to the server with e.g. an '�' I see the '�' > > in the debugging outputs of the server. > > But when I read from the socket with > > > > recv(j->fd, buf, sizeof(buf)-1, 0); (language c) > > > > the umlaut is know an 'ü' and other special characters like '�' act the same way. > > > > Do you think I have to configurate my jabebr-server or do I replace all these > > characters in my Client-C-Programm with the > > right characters? > > This are not strange characters ;) It's just that XMPP/Jabber does not > use the Latin-1/ISO-8859-1 charset you are used to use (and probably > using in your applications) but the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode. Therefore > XMPP is able to carry "all" characters not only a limited subset of > (less than) 256 characters you have in Latin-1. > > If you want to stick on using Latin-1 as your local charset (*), > take care, that you convert the characters from your local charset to > UTF-8 before transmitting and to convert them from UTF-8 back to your > local charset after receiving. > > If you declare another encoding than UTF-8 in the xml declaration using > the encoding attribute, the jabberd 1.4.x implementation and many others > will detect that you are using an other charset and will convert the > incoming data to UTF-8 ... but as you noticed on the outgoing stream > jabberd does always use the UTF-8 encoding. > That jabberd accepts other encodings than UTF-8 is a feature available > in the XML parser used by jabberd (and other servers), but you should > not rely on this, as it is not neccessary by the XMPP standard to accept > other encodings than UTF-8. > > If you are working on a unix plattform, you can use the function iconv() > (man 3 iconv) to convert between different charsets. I don't know, if > this function exists on (native) windows as well. > > > Tot kijk > Matthias > > > (*) you might also consider changing to using unicode in your > application by using the wchar_t character type instead of the char one. > > -- > Fon: +49-(0)70 0770 07770 http://web.amessage.info > HAM: DB1MW xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <hr> > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev > __________________________________________________________ Mit WEB.DE FreePhone mit hoechster Qualitaet ab 0 Ct./Min. weltweit telefonieren! http://freephone.web.de/?mc=021201 _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
