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------- Additional Comments From jason@keirstead.org  2004-01-26 21:27 -------
Subject: Re: [Kopete-devel]  UTF8 and other cause XML parsing errors, only in IRC conversations

On January 26, 2004 4:13 pm, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> > Why? It would only work in the situation where you're talking Russia ->
> > Russia.
>
> Yes, by far the most common case to be talking to fellow landsmen :)

I know, but who is to guarentee that they're even using the same codec? You
could be using Cyrillic and they could be using UTF?

I just have a very strong opinion that local8bit has absolutely no realistic 
relationship to the sender's codec, and it shouldn't influence our guessing, 
especially when you consider a string could be valid in multiple encodings.

I would rather display a warning message saying "we don't know the codec" than 
try to guess the codec and be right 90% of the time, but 10% of the time end 
up displaying total garbage. Displaying garbage even once in awhile is not an 
option, it makes Kopete look horrible; it's better to admit that we just 
don't know for sure than make a possibly incorrect guess.
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