From: George Shapovalov <george@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for net-im/sim
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:08:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200512192108.54215.george@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1135014812.24195.15.camel@cocagne.max-t.internal>
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).
Interestingly kde-based stuff somehow works most of the time, and when it does
not, you can force the right encoding for that particular user (at least for
both kopete and sim, not so with gaim).
Ok, I better stop bitching and go fix some more bugs :), but thanks for the
suggestion anyway..
George
On Monday, 19. December 2005 18:53, Olivier Crete wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-19-12 at 12:19 +0100, George Shapovalov wrote:
> > Ugh, it is the only one that reliably connects to icq (yea, I am stuck
> > using it for many people whom I contact as this is pretty much the only
> > protocol "honored" there) *and* handles various encodings in a sane way
> > (no, gaim, while been really nice on a protocol side, does not cut it on
> > localization side, not even close. And kopete is the other way around
> > :))..
>
> You may want to try GnomeICU for ICQ.
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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 [this message]
2005-12-19 20:59 ` Olivier Crete
2005-12-19 18:05 ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-12-19 18:58 ` George Shapovalov
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