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encoding issues Started 2 years ago by ohkine

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  1. ohkine
    Member

    I am having trouble with encoding of 'special' characters in Linkinus 2.0.2. By special i'm referring to things like em dashes ( — ) and degrees signs ( ° ), which always display in Linkinus with some weird accented character instead of what they're supposed to be.

    For example, if someone typed to me 'hey there — how are you today', it would instead appear in Linkinus as 'hey there â how are you today'. Or the temperature given as '16°C' will appear as '16°C'. This happens whenever anyone uses any of these characters, except for when i enter them myself (then they appear correct to both myself and others). Others do not have a problem viewing the characters, and i even tried different IRC clients, and all of them display correctly except Linkinus.

    Here are some examples. This first one is what a weather bot's output looks like in Colloquy:

    http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/5814/wcolloquy.png

    And here's the same exact line as displayed in Linkinus:

    http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4789/wlinkinus.png

    This happens with all of the styles i have installed, by the way.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. Okeanos
    Moderator

    Linkinus does not autodetect incoming encodings. That means if you use UTF-8 (default one) but someone else uses Shift JIS the incoming non standard characters will be displayed wrong.

    You have to adapt the connections encoding using the connection inspector -> advanced -> encoding and set it to what the others use to properly see the characters — OR ask them to use UTF-8 instead (better xD).

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. ohkine
    Member

    Thanks, changing that fixed it.

    However, i have some concerns:

    1. The encoding setting was empty (as in, not set to anything).

    2. When i set it to UTF-8, suddenly everything was fixed.

    Those two things together lead me to believe that Linkinus is not using UTF-8 by default. Is that correct? If so, is that intended? I don't believe i'd ever touched that setting before today.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  4. Okeanos
    Moderator

    Linkinus does use UTF-8 by default … at least it did last time I installed it.

    Could you write a bug report so that the developers check this? In the app -> Help -> Report a bug.

    Posted 2 years ago #

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