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From: Olivier Crete <tester@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for net-im/sim
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:59:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1135025951.22961.6.camel@cocagne.max-t.internal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512192108.54215.george@gentoo.org>

On Mon, 2005-19-12 at 21:08 +0100, George Shapovalov wrote:
> Thanks, I'll try, but seeing gnome in the name I am quite skeptical. It's 
> really nothing personal. Its just in my experience gnome/gtk apps could never 
> handle cyrillic well enough in all situations..
> 
> Yea, cyrillic is a bitch. Its probably worse than chineese, no really :). 
> These guys were later to the game, so even though they have like tons of 
> variants and intrinsically more complex stuff, at least they got it right. 
> With cyrillic we have like 4 different encodings for the very same thing, and 
> 3 of them are widely used (ironically, the one not used much is the "official 
> standard", well, as usual :)). So, you can imagine people having set their 
> environment to one encoding, client reporting another and, to top it off, 
> messages getting recoded while on the server (at least I can see a difference 
> when some poeple shift to direct mode after having logged in, versus messaged 
> left on server when somebody is out.. Well, that might be a server screwing 
> some reported settings, but that does not help.). As you can guess, I can't 
> wait for the last non-utf-8 aware app to die painfull death :) (whell, where 
> this kind of stuff is important of course).

Modern ICQ is either unicode or specifies the encoding (but as a windows
locale and not a regular encoding..). Old ICQ sucks and you have to
guess.. If you have problems with GnomeICU.. please file a bug at
bugzilla.gnome.org .. I'm the upstream maintainer too...

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Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-19 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-17 19:54 [gentoo-dev] last rites for net-im/sim Carsten Lohrke
2005-12-18  8:14 ` Bruno
2005-12-19 11:19   ` George Shapovalov
2005-12-19 17:53     ` Olivier Crete
2005-12-19 20:08       ` George Shapovalov
2005-12-19 20:59         ` Olivier Crete [this message]
2005-12-19 18:05     ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-12-19 18:58       ` George Shapovalov

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