Comments on: Debian package of character counting plugin for Pidgin

By: Clayton Davis

Clayton Davis — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:38:48 +0000

Just commenting to confirm this .deb works in debian testing 32-bit. Thanks!

By: Dossy Shiobara

Dossy Shiobara — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:17:26 +0000

Glad to hear the link is working for you now. It’s possible that there were problems but they must have resolved themselves, because I definitely didn’t change anything.

Thanks for letting me know, though.

By: Zach Johnson

Zach Johnson — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:30:01 +0000

Wow, now I feel really dumb. I swear it didn’t work for me earlier. I tried multiple times on multiple different days, even. It works for me now, though, so even if you didn’t do anything, thank you very much. Especially considering your prompt response on something so old. You’re awesome.

By: Dossy Shiobara

Dossy Shiobara — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:35:06 +0000

Zach: What do you mean the link doesn’t work? I just tested it now and it downloaded just fine … ?

By: Zach Johnson

Zach Johnson — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:17:22 +0000

I’m very new and not yet comfortable applying a patch and compiling from source, but the x86_64 binary link above doesn’t work. I would truly appreciate some help. Thanks in advance.

By: papapep

papapep — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:31:56 +0000

Many, many thanks for your work! it works flawlessly!

By: Dossy Shiobara

Dossy Shiobara — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:21:36 +0000

Luke, after having spent enough time in #pidgin on IRC, I have no interest in trying to get this plugin merged into upstream Pidgin. It’s not worth the trouble. Distributing the plugin this way is “good enough” for me, and apparently many other people.

By: Luke Faraone

Luke Faraone — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:34:47 +0000

I was looking into packaging this officially for Debian, but it seems that the plugin uses internal Pidgin APIs, which are not available by simply using -dev packages.

Have you looked into getting this plugin merged into upstream Pidgin?

By: Dossy Shiobara

Dossy Shiobara — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:49:39 +0000

Ryan: You’re right, the plugin is most likely counting bytes and not characters. Those 4 characters take 12 bytes to represent – so that makes sense.

I’ll see what I can do about fixing this. I’ll post an update if I do. Thanks for letting me know about this!

By: Ryan Ho

Ryan Ho — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:13:08 +0000

Hi,

I found this plugin not counting non-latin character correctly, like Chinese and Japanese. For example, I type four Chinese characters like “亞太地區” (without quote), the result is 12.