Comment 1 for bug 203475

First of all, why all of those problems are in single bug?! o_O [split them - this bug should be closed as "invalid"]

>1. My understanding there is no simultaneous support of the both AIM and ICQ, right?

ICQ = AIM, it's same network [http://sameplace.cc/wiki/how-to-chat-with-contacts-from-other-networks#toc0 ]

>2.They can read my messages, but I receive gibberish from them. <...>

AFAIK, it happens only with clients which not support Unicode (QIP etc.). Well, as solution (on SP side) it's possible to change received messages per symbols from bad encoding to "normal". To do this some changes in "chat.xhtml" and in script are needed (add table of symbols to change). But it shouldn't be in main branch of SP: this patch will disfigure symbols from French and other alphabets (with letters like Àà Ââ Çç Èè Éé Êê etc.) - it will change them to Russian ones (according table).

2. <...> No problem with that in AIM, though.

Interesting :) Anyway, it's related to Transport, not SP. Bard may be can setup up transport a bit better to support Cyrillic - dunno...

3. I will check it

4. Duplicate of bug#200545 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/sameplace/+bug/200545 )

Overall: 1 - question, 1 - duplicate, 2 - problems... :/