[OTR-users] otr proxy problems with german umlaute

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Sat Jul 30 10:34:03 EDT 2005


On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:46:29PM +0200, Andreas von Arb wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> Can anyone help me with following problem:
> 
> Sending German Umlaute like '??????' over the OTR Proxy does not work
> correctly.
> 
> A friend sent e.g. 'Bl??' (which does not make any sense) and I receive
> 'Bl????' wich is quite ugly to look at.
> Tested with OTR Proxy 0.3.0 und Trillian 0.74 and 3.1 Basic using SOCKS5
> Proxy. The rest works fine for me.
> 
> Is this bug already known?
> Any workaround?

This is now fixed in CVS.  We correctly handle all Unicode points
< 0x10000.  There seems to be no way to handle points larger than that,
though, since none of the OSCAR encodings (ASCII, ISO-8859-1, UCS-2BE)
can represent them.

   - Ian



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