yahoo.co.jp's Yahoo! Messenger changed codepage (Shift-JIS => UTF-8)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pidgin |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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pidgin (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: pidgin
* Root cause
yahoo.co.jp's Yahoo! Messenger(It is yahoo.co.jp originals.
Please recognize that they are different from yahoo.com's
Yahoo! messenger) changed protocol specification.
They changed charset(codepage) Shift-JIS to UTF-8.
So, pidgin cannot use Japanese character correctly in conversation
with yahoo.co.jp's Yahoo! Messenger now.
* Background:
Japanese Yahoo! Messenger is original localized by www.yahoo.co.jp.
(Japanese Yahoo! Messenger's account divided with original Yahoo's,
and yahoo.co.jp customized it)
t has another communication protocol, and pidgin had supported it.
* Reference:
http://
| On Feb 26, Yahoo! JAPAN released webmessenger
| http://
| UTF-8 completely and dot not accept SHIFT-JIS anymore
http://
> 2008/2/26 "Yahoo!
Changed in pidgin: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in pidgin: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
fixed upstream (issue 4921 in pidgin, see above)