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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kopete-devel] [Bug 72917] UTF8 and other cause XML parsing
From:       Casey Allen Shobe <cshobe () softhome ! net>
Date:       2004-01-25 2:00:16
Message-ID: 200401242100.16778.cshobe () softhome ! net
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Jason Keirstead (Friday 23 January 2004 12:48)
> The incoming IRC data is almost never going to be UTF 8, no one uses it ( I
> wish they did, but they don't ). 

You are *JUST NOW* realizing this?  I've pointed this out *MANY* times, on the 
list, on BKO, on IRC, etc. etc. etc.

Maybe tha words "IRC is completely unusable for me" only mean something to you 
when they come from somebody else?  I know I said them before quite some 
number of times.

I also suggested changing the default encoding back to ISO-8859-1, which would 
alleviate 99% of the problems.

IRC was designed for ISO-8859-1.  With the exception of a few new clients (all 
linux-based), no client supports using a charset other than ISO-8859-1.  It's 
fine if you want to support UTF-8, but that is *NOT* what 99% of IRC 
servers/users use, and so it's an outright *STUPID* default.

A default of UTF-8 makes Kopete unusable for any of the many nonenglish 
languages that use ISO-8859-1.  The default should always be ISO-8859-1, 
unless overridden.

You could have changed this default without violating freezes nearly as badly 
as you did when adding encoding selection (which was only really necessary 
because the default was UTF-8), which doesn't even work right.

Jesus Christ, you are so fucking frustrating it's rediculous.

Vertu sæll,

-- 
Sigþór Björn Jarðarson (Casey Allen Shobe)
http://rivyn.livejournal.com
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