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This would be invaluable for instances where you've lost a chat but had previously exported it. Telegram allows for importing from WhatsApp, but not from its own platform!
This would be relatively straightforward to implement. A user would need only to navigate to their chat export folder with all of the message htmls and subfolders, and then the html files could be read, and if the format were the same (i.e. Telegram readable) then it could be parsed and displayed in the chat for the one who had imported it. The process could be sped up by comparing any still-existing messages and their metadata so that messages don't get copied over twice, and only the missing ones get filled in.
When importing it, the user could be given the option of which person they are in the chat, so that both parties are able to import using the same file if desired.
A security concern with this however is that anybody could simply export a chat, delete it, and then import it back in but with some of the html messages changed, making it look like the other party said something they didn't. For this reason I think messages that are imported should have a slight visual distinction from normal messages.
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/1221
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/1589
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/3640
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/6536