Version: (using KDE KDE 3.3.2) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages OS: Linux After switching to a UTF8 locale (de_DE.UTF-8) german umlauts in messages I receive over ICQ appear as chinese characters. This does not happen with all my contacts though. Additionally the character after the umlaut is not dispalyed as well, so it seems the umlaut and the following chatacter are interpreted as two-byte unicode character. The contacts I tested that with used miranda and licq.
Sorry, the protocol has been rewritten for Kopete 0.10. There's no plan on releasing bugfixes for 0.9. Can you retest with Kopete 0.10 (from KDE 3.4.0) and report if you still have this issue? I am using an UTF-8 locale and Kopete 0.10 works fine for me.
Ah yes. Well I am too lazy to compile myself now, and since 3.4 is pretty near, I will wait for that. Thanks!
I expierence the same problem, I use Kopete 0.12.3 from KDE 3.5.5.
Please ensure that you've selected correct default encoding for your account and encoding for your contact (if you communicate with this particular user using encoding different from default encoding for your account). These settings affect only offline messages and other stuff (like user info), which is encoded using user-specific 8-bit encoding in ICQ protocol. Official ICQ5 Windows client uses "Encoding for legacy non-Unicode applications" Windows setting for this, so don't select UTF-8 as encoding. For example, for Western European languages use Windows-1252 encoding.