RE: Language characters

[martyn 2 russell bt com]

> The encoding has to be part of your network protocol. (Either 
> by passing
> it, or by defining what the encoding is as part of the protocol.)
> You can't just have a random stream of bytes in an undefined encoding
> and tell GTK+ to display it.

This is TRUE :)

The information I receive is coming in from a GIOChannel.  I would expect
that is UTF8.  Therefore there should not be any translation needed.

If, for example I search for a contact I have which has Russian details, the
information is displayed perfectly:
http://gnome-jabber.sourceforge.net/screenshot-russian.png

Therefore, either umlauts are not supported by UTF8 OR the text that comes
in on the socket is invalid UTF8 (and I admit I do not check it because I
assume it already is).

Regards,
Martyn