Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for net-im/sim

[Olivier Crete]

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@g.o
Gentoo Developer


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