Re: [Gaim-devel] encodings in gaim

[Sergey V. U. <ser...@cl...>]

> Gaim 0.59.3 should work more or less properly for the UTF-8 protocols
> (as you say, MSN) if you have your locale set correctly.  I use it
> regularly to converse in Japanese, which is much more difficult to
> convert than, say, KOI8-R.
:) OK. I'll try. The problem is whether 0.53 converts internal unicode
of MSN correctly into the local encoding (for me it is koi8-r). It seems
the answer is "no" but I'll check this once again...

> we'll start seeing real improvements in that area.  As Luke said, the
> move to Gtk2/Pango is certainly going to help.
Glad to hear. But at the moment Gtk1 is still alive (and GNOME 1 is more
stable, I'd say). And it can do a lot of good things usual good old
LANG, LC_, CHARSET variables. So do not drop it yet:)

> Thanks for your comments, and stick around for the changeover...  I'll
> need plenty of bug-testers.  :-)
OK. Count me in.

Sergey