Bug 195529

Summary:	Incoming offline ICQ messages contain null characters
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Bram Schoenmakers <me>
Component:	ICQ and AIM Plugins	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.70.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Bram Schoenmakers 2009-06-07 09:05:56 UTC

Version:           0.70.2 (using KDE 4.2.3)
Compiler:          gcc 4.4 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

When I receive a message with ICQ while I was offline, the message is shown with a null byte \000 between every character:

"Hi," becomes "^@H^@i^@,^@".

Never had the problem with normal, online, messages.

Using kdemod packages (Arch Linux).

Comment 1 Roman Jarosz 2009-11-01 22:08:43 UTC

I can't reproduce, is this still valid? If so what client does the other person use?

Comment 2 Bram Schoenmakers 2009-11-03 00:02:04 UTC

I have yet to check with that particular person who usually sends me offline messages (hasn't happened in a while). But that user is using the official ICQ client, not quite sure which version though. I'd say the newest version or slightly older than that.

Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 22:40:49 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.

Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:27:43 UTC

Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.