Ticket #1227 (closed defect: invalid)

Opened 1 month ago

Last modified 1 month ago

Colloquy for the iPhone doesn't display latin-1 at all

Reported by: RaoulDuke Assigned to: timothy
Priority: normal Component: Colloquy (GUI)
Version: Latest 2.1 Severity: normal
Keywords: iphone utf-8 iso-8859-1 latin-1 Cc:

Description

Using Colloquy on the iPhone in a channel in which most people speak Swedish using utf-8, but some still use iso-8859-1 (latin-1), colloquy does not display any messages containing non ascii chars coded with iso-8859-1 at all. And it's very common since Swedish uses ÅÄÖ and åäö all the time.

Of course, iso-8859-1 isn't valid utf-8, but the best way to handle such a message is that if an invalid utf-8 sequence is encountered, treat the whole message as iso-8859-1 (or maybe iso-8859-15 to get the € symbol as well), do a quick convert and then display it, taking care not to display non printable chars like 0x00-0x1F and 0x80-0x9F.

This is what many other irc clients do.

It should probably be a very easy fix, and it would help a lot.

I'm not sure if this is in the GUI or IRC Core. Version is r70.

Change History

04/15/08 02:26:27 changed by jane

Heyas! Unfortunately, the app in question is mobile Colloquy and not Colloquy. Mobile Colloquy is not affiliated with Colloquy and has its own issues page on http://code.google.com/p/mcolloquy/

04/16/08 10:00:00 changed by akempgen

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.