[OTR-users] Problem with german umlauts

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Thu May 11 18:03:09 EDT 2006


On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:44:00PM +0200, Torsten Grote wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A friend of mine is using Trillian basic 3.1 (build 121) with 
> otrproxy-0.3.1 on socks5. I'm using Gaim2 beta3 with libotr 3.0.0 and 
> gaim-otr 3.0.0 in linux.
> If he sends me a message over ICQ or AIM containing umlauts like ??????, 
> I just get a blank message with no text in it. On the other hand, if I 
> send him messages with umlauts everything works as desired.

Are you sure your friend is using otrproxy 0.3.1?  Because the problem
you describe is exactly what was fixed in the change from 0.3.0 to
0.3.1.

   - Ian



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