Bug 33202

Summary:	Non-latin contact names shown encoded in Jabber
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Ivan Mashchenko <ivan.mashchenko>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium	CC:	pva, rishi.is
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Ivan Mashchenko 2011-01-17 04:50:59 UTC

If I use non-latin characters to name a Jabber contact, then &#nnn; codes are shown instead of non-latin letters in chat windows' titles as well as in contact list.

Contact list may show correct (readable, non-encoded) name until restart.

Tested with cyrillic letters on Ubuntu 10.10 x86 en_GB, Empathy 2.32.1.

Comment 1 Will Thompson 2011-02-02 08:25:33 UTC

Ivan: do you mean non-latin characters in the contact's JID, or in their alias?

Either way, I guess you're using Empathy? I suspect this is an Empathy bug.

Comment 2 Peter 2011-12-08 15:22:53 UTC

Yes this is strange bug and probably in empathy. I have lot's of accounts and some names are shown correctly while others look broken. Any ideas what and how to debug?

Comment 3 Debarshi Ray 2012-03-02 15:29:49 UTC

In my case this problem does not occur with GTalk but with jabber.org accounts.

From what I could make out, the non-Latin characters are correctly "seen"  by Empathy, but then contacts_aliases_changed in telepathy-glib sends back a signal with the broken string, which eventually results in the wrong text being shown.

Comment 4 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-09 11:22:09 UTC

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