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

[Jana von dem Berge]

OK, thanks, know I understand!

Jabber software development list <jdev at jabber.org> schrieb am 15.10.04 12:09:31:
> 
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Jana von dem Berge wrote:
> 
> > Thancs for the reply! But I have not declared another encoding. I think
> > UTF-8 "knows" the german umlauts, is that wrong?
> 
> Using this
> >>> recv(j->fd, buf, sizeof(buf)-1, 0); (language c)
> you read an UTF-8 encoded string into buf. Then you probably do a printf
> or something. However, printf doesn't know anything about encodings.
> Therefore, the UTF-8 encoded string will be written without any conversion
> to a console that probably doesn't use the UTF-8 encoding which breaks all
> special characters.
> 
> BTW in more modern programming languages (for example Java) the String
> variable type/class knows its encoding. Therefore, using these languages
> such problems do not arise.
> 
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