From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: When chatting in ICQ, ä ö, å are sent as multibyte sequences to other clients (Mirabilis ICQ) and not viewed correctly. The same characters are stripped when recieved from ICQ. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Chat in with ICQ user 2.Write a text containing umlauted characters. 3.Ask other user to write umlauted characters Actual Results: Stripped characters when recieved. Multibyte shown incorrectly when sent. Expected Results: Our local characters showed as expected. Additional info: I have submitted a similair bug to the Gimp package. So perhaps this is a more deepgoing problem with RH8 using multibyte representation as standard.
More likely it's a problem with using a gtk1.2 based application.
If I set LANG to sv_SE instead of the default sv_SE.utf8 it works as expected.
This should also be fine in the newer gtk2 gaim. In any case RH8 has hit end of life, so closing.