[jdev] Using german umlauts and other special characters in jabber client

[Jana von dem Berge]

Thancs for the reply!

But I have not declared another encoding. I think UTF-8 "knows" the german umlauts, is that wrong?





Jabber software development list <jdev at jabber.org> schrieb am 15.10.04 11:23:12:
> 
> Hi Jana!
> 
> Jana von dem Berge schrieb am 2004-10-15 10:58:44:
> > I'm running jabberd 1.4.3 and I have Problems with german umlauts. 
> > When I send a message with a Client to the server with e.g. an 'ü' I see the 'ü' in the debugging outputs of the server.
> > But when I read from the socket with 
> > 
> > recv(j->fd, buf, sizeof(buf)-1, 0); (language c)
> > 
> > the umlaut is know an 'ü' and other special characters like 'à' act the same way.
> > 
> > Do you think I have to configurate my jabebr-server or do I replace all these characters in my Client-C-Programm with the
> > right characters?
> 
> This are not strange characters ;) It's just that XMPP/Jabber does not
> use the Latin-1/ISO-8859-1 charset you are used to use (and probably
> using in your applications) but the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode. Therefore
> XMPP is able to carry "all" characters not only a limited subset of
> (less than) 256 characters you have in Latin-1.
> 
> If you want to stick on using Latin-1 as your local charset (*),
> take care, that you convert the characters from your local charset to
> UTF-8 before transmitting and to convert them from UTF-8 back to your
> local charset after receiving.
> 
> If you declare another encoding than UTF-8 in the xml declaration using
> the encoding attribute, the jabberd 1.4.x implementation and many others
> will detect that you are using an other charset and will convert the
> incoming data to UTF-8 ... but as you noticed on the outgoing stream
> jabberd does always use the UTF-8 encoding.
> That jabberd accepts other encodings than UTF-8 is a feature available
> in the XML parser used by jabberd (and other servers), but you should
> not rely on this, as it is not neccessary by the XMPP standard to accept
> other encodings than UTF-8.
> 
> If you are working on a unix plattform, you can use the function iconv()
> (man 3 iconv) to convert between different charsets. I don't know, if
> this function exists on (native) windows as well.
> 
> 
> Tot kijk
>     Matthias
> 
> 
> (*) you might also consider changing to using unicode in your
> application by using the wchar_t character type instead of the char one.
> 
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