QIP decoder for Pidgin
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Installation and configuration
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Copy qip-decoder.dll or qip-decoder.so to pidgin plugins directory on Windows,
or to /usr/lib/purple-2 directory on Linux.
In plugin settings Tools/Plugins (Ctrl+U) enable the QIP Decoder plugin.

Version 1.3 allows to set codepage independently for each one contact.
For this to work, you must create file qips.xml in
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application data\.purple directory on Windows,
or in ~/.purple on Linux.

Example: Most of your contacts have QIP and use codepage # 1250. Howewer, your
contact 111222333 has QIP and is using codepage # 1252. Next contact 222333444
has Pidgin and writes in Russian (it corresponds to the codepage # 1251).
This contact requires disabling the QIP Decoder, which would corrupt cyrillic by
its operation.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<qips>
 <default enabled='1' codepage='1250' />
 <qip uin='111222333' enabled='1' codepage='1252' />
 <qip uin='222333444' enabled='0' />
</qips>

Source code
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Source code is now available from http://www.sedaha.cz/qip-decoder/ .

Compilation
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Please follow the official Pidgin plugin instructions
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/CHowTo/BasicPluginHowto and the section PLUGINS
in README file (in Pidgin source).

Simply, it says, you have to

    * download and unpack Pidgin source, then
    * ./configure,
    * copy qip-decoder.c source file into /usr/src/pidgin-X.X.X/libpurple/plugins directory and
    * make qip-decoder.so.

Viktor Michna (viktor.michna@sedaha.cz)