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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121053
Summary: Outgoing messages sent as UTF-8, ignoring manually
selected encoding
Product: kopete
Version: unspecified
Platform: FreeBSD Ports
OS/Version: FreeBSD
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
AssignedTo: kopete-devel kde org
ReportedBy: freebsd chillt de
Version: 0.11.51 (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from: FreeBSD Ports
Compiler: gcc version 3.4.4 [FreeBSD] 20050518
OS: FreeBSD
The encoding of outgoing ICQ messages recently broke in the dev-0.12 branch.
SVN commit 497530, which was supposed to fix encoding related problems in
OSCAR, seems to be at fault.
Since that commit, I have been forced to manually select an encoding for each
ICQ contact. Otherwise, German umlauts get mingled and don't display correctly.
However, the manually selected encoding seems to be applied to *incoming*
messages only. *outgoing* messages are always sent as UTF-8, regardless of what
encoding has been manually choses. Worse yet, the messages seem not to be
marked as UTF-8 so that the client on the other side cannot decode them.
A particular example of this behavior is a contact of mine using Trillian Pro
3.1. His client advertises UTF-8 capability, but all I receive from it are
encoded in ISO 8859-1. I have therefore manually set the encoding for this
contact to 8859-1. Outgoing messages are definitely still sent as UTF-8 and
after seeing what they look like on his screen, I believe that his client is
interpeting them as ISO 8859-1; this probably is due to the lack of some flag
indicating that this is an UTF-8 message.
So, there are two problems here:
1. Outgoing messages are sent as UTF-8 regardless of manually selected encoding
2. They apparently are not marked as UTF-8 messages, which leads to
misinterpretation at the receiving side
If I should split those two issues into separate bugs, please let me know.
Before this bug was filed, the issue had been discussed briefly in 79574. Also,
bug 92740 is similar; but it's for the reverese case, where a manually selected
encoding is applied to *outgoing* messages *only*. The issue at hand seems to
be genuinely new.
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