yahoo.co.jp's Yahoo! Messenger changed codepage (Shift-JIS => UTF-8)

[Fumihito YOSHIDA]

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://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4921
| On Feb 26, Yahoo! JAPAN released webmessenger
| http://webmessenger.yahoo.co.jp/ and they switched to
| UTF-8 completely and dot not accept SHIFT-JIS anymore

http://messenger.yahoo.co.jp/notice.html
> 2008/2/26 "Yahoo!メッセンジャー一部サポート終了のお知らせ"

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

fixed upstream (issue 4921 in pidgin, see above)

[Magnus S (magnuss)]

Upstream bug was fixed in 2.5.0. We are at 2.5.2 in Intrepid, so lets mark it as fix released.