[Gaim-devel] [oscar] polish characters

[Robert <car...@pf...>]

Hello!
I use gaim from CVS.
I have one trouble.
When talking to people using ICQ200x. I cannot send and receive polish 
characters properly.
They appear on both sides as encoded in ISO8859-1.
In fact - they are encoded as CP1250 (Windows-EE) - pseudo Microsoft standard.
Well - I talked with Sean Egan on ICQ.
As suggested, I applied a small patch to oscar.c:
        if (args->icbmflags & AIM_IMFLAGS_CUSTOMCHARSET) {
                debug_printf ("Custom character set: %d %d\n", args->charset, 
args->charsubset);
+                if (args->charset == 3){
+                    tmp = g_convert(args->msg, args->msglen, "UTF-8", 
"CP1250", NULL, &convlen, &err);
+                    if (err) {
+                        debug_printf("CP1250 IM conversion: %s\n", 
err->message);
+                        tmp = strdup(_("(There was an error receiving this 
message)"));
+                    }
+                }
        }

Why 3? Because it appeared when executed gaim -d. charsubset was 65536.
It did the thing. I receive messages with proper characters displayed.

But ...
What with sending messages?
I see that they are sent always as UTF. Have no idea how to g_convert messages 
_only_ sent to people using windows icq200x client. I am afraid there is a 
need to follow whole conversation :( I don't know a way to _guess_ client 
version or client encoding.

Talking to people using gaim (oscar plugin) works perfectly (almost perfectly 
- when I am offline and get message with polish characters, after going 
online, I receive empty or partial message - without polish chars).

Have you got any ideas? Maybe I should study other clients code (licq, ickle) 
to find a solution? Or libicq2000?

Best regards,
Robert