[Ayttm-users] [ ayttm-Bugs-2083279 ] Accented chars not working

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Bugs item #2083279, was opened at 2008-08-30 06:59
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: George Black (geow)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Accented chars not working

Initial Comment:
I received this through the Puppy Linux Forum

Bm


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PostPosted: Today, at 5:43 am    Post subject: 	  Reply with quote 
I have discovered an issue, which for international users might be a show-stopper. The issue is that there are problems with national language characters (accented)
When used, they are not displayed correctly.
I did following tests between linux versions and XP versions.
Pidgin <-> Pidgin no problem
Pidgin <-> Miranda no problem
Ayttm -> Pidgin or Miranda, they shows unreadable characters
Ayttm <- Pidgin or Miranda, Ayttm replaces the accented character by ?

In the preferences of Ayttm, I don't see a possibility to set the character set. 

I believe Bm was probably running the Yahoo protocol.
I decided to run some tests of my own.
I use irc.freenode.net. This is what I did:

I booted a version of Puppy Linux that has Xchat, 
Pidgin, and Ayttm. I updated Ayttm to the latest -75
version. I started Ayttm, Pidgin, & Xchat all irc.

I sent similar lines with accented chars from each and
looked at the results in the others.

In all cases the sent line looks fine in the sender.

Xchat receives weird chars from Ayttm and Pidgin.
Pidgin - good results when sent from Ayttm, "?" is 
substituted when sent from Xchat.
Ayttm - nothing - lines with accented chars do not 
appear at all in Ayttm when sent from Xchat or Pidgin.

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>Comment By: Siddhesh Poyarekar (siddheshp)
Date: 2008-08-31 13:58

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Thanks George, I've put the fix in CVS. This one of those instances where
we were trying to convert from and to UTF8 since GTK1.x didn't do UTF8 by
default. This is no longer needed.

Siddhesh

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Comment By: George Black (geow)
Date: 2008-08-30 07:09

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Note: the name of the original post maker is Beem -
with an acute accent on the first e and a grave on
the second. 

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