Feature Requests item #1664242, was opened at 2007-02-20 15:23
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Category: oscar
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>Status: Open
Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Dmitriy Geels (dm_ig)
Assigned to: Mark Doliner (thekingant)
Summary: ICQ non-unicode charset

Initial Comment:
There is a flaw in ICQ protocol implementation: one of ICQ bugs is not handled 
correctly in non-win32 versions of gaim.

Because of windoze has 3 charsets for each locale (Unicode, ANSI, OEM), all 
text sent thru ICQ protocol, which not marked/known as unicode, actually are in 
ANSI charset.
But non-win32 gaim versions doesn't event know about it. So those texts are 
mapped to first 255 chars in system encoding (UTF-8 in my case). There is a 
known workaround for this: run gaim like this "LOCALE=cp1251 && gaim".

Best solution is to add parameter specially for ICQ protocol for non-win32 
versions 'ANSI charset', so user could select it manually.

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>Comment By: Dmitriy Geels (dm_ig)
Date: 2007-02-21 11:11

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do you mean, that charset is used only for non-unicode texts? if so, this
is the thing I asked for

or it used everywhere? then there is need for second charset - 'ANSI'

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Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager)
Date: 2007-02-21 04:18

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Where would you expect such an option? I ask because the place I'd expect
it is in the account options for an ICQ account, which is exactly where
the "encoding" option exists now. Doesn't that work?

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