kopete and hebrew

[sara fink]

Diego, thanks for your explanation. Here is what I have:
locale
LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=en_US

In my case, I use kopete. The other side is using windows with the web
client goicq.com.


> Choose cp-1255, as it has a larger range of Hebrew support, if it's
> possible.
>
> Now, I have talked with the Kopete developers a few years ago and they
> explained to me why ICQ gives us so much troubles. It seems that when a
> message is sent in ICQ one of it's headers describes the encoding the in
> which
> this message is encoded. Ok, so far so good.
>
> However, most of the messages/clients (not sure about it) are sent in
> encoding
> number 3, which means "use your locale". So, Alice has
> LC_CTYPE=he_IL.cp-1255
> and sends a hebrew message to Bob (which used LC_CTYPE=C) and if the message
> is in encoding "3", this means the encoding is LC_CTYPE. Pretty much fucked
> up, IMHO. Nice to have a menu which overrides it.
>
> Well... more or less, as in windows you don't really have LC_CTYPE... and I
> am
> not sure if the borked encoding number is "3"... but you get the idea.
>
> Please use unicode when developing new applications/protocols. Transfer the
> text sing UTF-8. Or die, slowly and use putty on Windows95 to read your
> email
> from your Linux box by deciphering the packets read by tcpdump.
>
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