Re: [Licq-devel] patch for encoding error in caption

[Jon K. <jo...@li...>]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:48:05PM +0200, Martin Garbe wrote:
> In the caption of the main window the username is shown. If you have
> german umlauts you will see something with wrong encoding.
> The reason for that is the encoding of the user alias. This alias is
> always saved in utf8 (by qt-gui). But when showing it in the caption is
> not assumed to be in utf8.

Thanks, looks like I over missed this one when I changed how the
aliases are always saved.

> Then I have another question. In owner.Licq there's an option called
> "Encoding". I did not found any place where this option is set. At the
> moment there is no way to change the value except changing the value
> direct in the file with an editor. Should qt-gui use/edit this value?

This was the former way of setting the encoding used with the icq
protocol. However, it's suggested to not set this anymore because there
are per user encodings, which is much better than one general encoding.

I'll take a final review of the patches tonight after work.

Jon

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