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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 124431] kopete replaces umlauts with weird characters
From:       Bartosz Fabianowski <freebsd () chillt ! de>
Date:       2006-03-31 20:00:09
Message-ID: 20060331200009.30783.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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freebsd chillt de changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
          Component|general                     |ICQ and AIM Plugins
         OS/Version|Linux                       |All
         Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE
            Version|unspecified                 |SVN



------- Additional Comments From freebsd chillt de  2006-03-31 22:00 -------
This is a result of the wrong encoding being used. Selection of a default encoding \
was never implemented for ICQ and all contacts just randomly use "Big5", the encoding \
with the smallest internal ID. That's why you get Chinese characters.

To work around the problem, you need to manually select "ISO-8859-1 Western" encoding \
for *each* and every contact using German umlauts.

When you open the encoding selection dialog for a contact, you will see that \
"ISO-8859-1 Western" is already selected. Don't be fooled. No encoding is selected \
and "ISO-8859-1 Western" is only shown because it happens to be first in the list \
used in this dialog. You need to select any other encoding, close the dialog, reopen \
it, select "ISO-8859-1 Western" and then, finally, the selection will stick.

It's really a nuisance and probably rather easy to implement, but real life has \
caught up with me way too much to be able to look into it myself.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123486 ***


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