Re: [Gaim-devel] encodings in gaim

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Sergey V. Udaltsov spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > 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...

If your LANG and/or LC_CTYPE are set to ru_RU (or ru_RU.koi8-r or
whatever), it should work fine.  AIM/ICQ will not (yet).

> > 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:)

I agree ... unfortunately internationalization in Gtk1 (especially
given the current state of the gaim codebase, which was not written
with i18n in mind at *all*) is going to be difficult at best.  The
last few releases should have been markedly better, but issues still
remain.

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

Great!  :-)
Ethan

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