ICQ buddy info character encoding problem

[schoen]

In the buddy info window, whenever an ICQ contact’s first or last name contains a non-UTF-8 character (e.g. an ISO-8859-1 encoded German letter 'ö'), the name is not being displayed. This has been happening since 2.0.0beta6. If the contact’s name is encoded in UTF-8, then it is displayed correctly in Pidgin, but is broken in most other ICQ clients, displaying ö' instead of ö'.

[Robby]

#695?

[Sim-on]

problem appears not only with names... away messages with ä ö ü ß doesnt work, too...

[clast]

Confirmed

[elb]

Does it display correctly in the *official* client? We are not too concerned about brokenness in Miranda, Trillian, etc. -- we can't hope to keep up with the breakages of the real client, much less all the poor third-party implementations.

[schoen]

It displays correctly in the official AOL client. The official client uses ISO-8859-1 when displaying and updating user info, but Pidgin only accepts valid UTF-8 characters. The garbled user info window looks like this.

[schoen]

Some debug output when retrieving user info:

Gtk: gtk_text_buffer_emit_insert: assertion 'g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed

[seanegan]

duplicate of #1645