[Bug 23542] Forces default encodings to UTF-8, which turns out to be bad

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23542


Will Thompson <will.thompson at collabora.co.uk> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|ICQ encoding problem        |Forces default encodings to
                   |                            |UTF-8, which turns out to be
                   |                            |bad




--- Comment #3 from Will Thompson <will.thompson at collabora.co.uk>  2009-08-27 05:15:45 PST ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Haze has UTF-8 set, I have not changed this. Note that I have never/configured
> pidgin on this machine. On my other machine with pidgin, ICQ is really
> configured to use ISO-8859-1 for some reason.
> 
> So setting Empathy to ISO-8859-1 is the only way?

Yeah. If your contacts were using UTF-8, you'd've seen similar problems in
Pidgin, and would have had to change the encoding there.

As I said, I forced the default to be UTF-8 on all protocols in Haze. That's
probably a mistake in hindsight. I'll fix it.


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