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Hi!
Can anyone tell me how to decode Cyrillic text? I am from Russia but I live in US and messages from everyone who writes me from Russia look like "" "ÿ íå ïî ðóññêè ïèñàë"
May be there are settings that I did not find?!

What to do??? Thanks!!!

What service is this on? Most are UTF8, but for ICQ you need to specify the encoding in the account preferences.

Good question.... I don`t know what service.......where can I take this info from? Sorry, I am not very good in all these computer "terms"
It is interesting, but with some people I can talk without problem, no need to decode, with others - i DON`T SEE A NORMAL MESSAGE.....
I will appreciate any help with this issue.....

Look in Preferences/Accounts and tell us what service is being used from there. Click the + button to see a list of icons with names beside it. Compare the icon to the one for your account and you'll know what service your account uses.

Also, since you are new.
Typing in all caps is considered yelling on the internet.

Sorry, I know about caps, just was in a hurry......

Icons showed me that I use ICQ ( I knew it actually......just did not understand the question int he first place .....

Ok, I also looked at accounts/options and it shows the following:

- server - login.oscar.aol.com
- encoding - ISO - 8859-1
- port - 5190

You'll need to change the encoding. Try something like UTF-8 or Unicode. My apologies, I do not have adium in front of me to view the options available.

Thanks! I tried to find these two names but they are nt in the encoding list
The person who i had commuticating problem with has changed something in his preferences ( mask or smth. like that) and now it works!
Thanks everyone for help anyway!!!!!

As an aside, for some reason we dont have UTF8 as an option on ICQ. This may be a bug.

We don't need it. UTF8 is always used if both sides support it -- i.e. if both sides are using a modern, sane ICQ client. The default encoding is what is used as a fall-back if UTF8 isn't supported.

i had same problem

you have to switch icq account to windows cyrillic encoding (1251)

do it this way:

Adium>
Preferences>
Accounts>
[double click on your icq account]>
Options>
Encoding=CP1251

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