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

[maqi at jabberstudio.org]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Jana von dem Berge wrote:

> 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.

Read this:
"The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must
Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)"
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

Regards