ICQ Encoding Progress

Here we will attempt to identify precisely what does and does not work as far as ICQ encodings in communication with the official ICQ client. If you can confirm an entry in the below tables currently marked with a question mark (be SURE you know that the remote client is the official client of the appropriate version!), please update the table and provide an annotation below.

ICQ 6

ICQ Locale	Pidgin Version	Pidgin Encoding	Offline Messages	Away Messages	Available Messages	Buddy Info	Auth Request
Bulgarian	?	?	Broken	?	Broken	?	?
German	?	ISO-8859-1	Broken?	Works?	Works?	Broken?	Broken?

Annotations

Offline available messages reported broken in comment:1645:72

ICQ 5.1

ICQ Locale	Pidgin Version	Pidgin Encoding	Offline Messages	Away Messages	Available Messages	Buddy Info	Auth Request
Bulgarian	2.0.2	CP1251	Works	Works	Broken?	Broken	Broken
Bulgarian	?	?	?	?	Broken	?	?
German?	?	?	?	Broken	?	?	?

Annotations

Confirmed Bulgarian dispositions are from I4ko on #1645.

comment:1645:43 indicates that attachment:ticket:1645:paket​ shows ICQ 5.1 sending a UTF-8 message marked as ISO-8859-1.

Unknown Client

ICQ Locale	Pidgin Version	Pidgin Encoding	Offline Messages	Away Messages	Available Messages	Buddy Info	Auth Request
Hebrew	2.1.1	CP1255	?	Broken	Broken?	Broken	?

Annotations

Hebrew information from attachment:ticket:1645:p.jpg​