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. If you are reporting something broken, please attach a packet dump (binary tcpdump format with a snaplen of 1500 if possible!) to the ticket and include a comment to that effect in your annotation.

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?
German	2.4.2	CP1252	Works	Works	Works	Fixed in 2.4.3	Broken (2.4.3)
Russian	2.4.2	CP1251	Works	?	Works	Broken*	Broken
Hebrew	2.4.2	ISO-8859-8	Works	Works	Works	Works	Broken*

Annotations

Offline messages reported broken in comment:ticket:1645:72

• (russian, 2.4.2) only away-message-encoding is wrong in Buddy-Info-Dialog
• (hebrew, 2.4.2) icq 6 sends an hebrew or -RTL alligned english- auth message doesn't show up on client (only first character?)

ICQ 5.1

• doesn't work any more without hack -

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​