r000n wrote:
By the way, ICQ used to support UTF-16 long long ago, I don't quite
understand why UTF-16 was replaced with UTF-8.

UTF-8 is more usable than UTF-16. It have backward compatibility with
ASCII.

Right, but ICQ-clients had to support both UTF-16 and 8bit before... Now they have to support UTF-8 too — I really don't understand why two unicode versions coexist in same protocol.

Yes, I know that icq is not about compatibility but about breaking the protocol twice a year. :)

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WBRBW, Leonid Evdokimov

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