Re: Unicode emojis shown as tofu

2019-08-28 Thread Eion Robb
Hi Alex, Can you try the json-glib dll from https://eion.robbmob.com/libjson-glib-1.0.dll ? You might have one that has the g_unichar_validate() function linking as part of libgobject rather than libglib. > what "new version" of GTK is needed? The one that uses harfbuzz. I'm not sure what

Re: Unicode emojis shown as tofu

2019-08-28 Thread pidgin
Doesn't Pidgin on Linux use a version that supports Emoji? Why not achieve parity? Also, what "new version" of GTK is needed? I was trying the latest version of 2.x, my attempts at using 3.x failed completely. I have no experience of working with GTK, and frankly this experience feels like

Re: Unicode emojis shown as tofu

2019-08-28 Thread Eion Robb
Hi Alex, The plugins might not load due to a bad version of libjson-glib that I built. It was built in such a way that it won't work on newer versions of gtk/glib. I've got a rebuilt json-glib dll that works with newer GTKs that you're welcome to try and see if it works. I'll send through the

Unicode emojis shown as tofu

2019-08-28 Thread pidgin
I mentioned the issue on the purple-discord github, and was told that the reason was that Pidgin on Windows uses an old version of GTK that doesn't support emoji. The suggestion was to manually upgrade the version of GTK but after spending hours trying to make it work, I gave up. I started

Re: Using ShortKeys with Pidgin

2019-08-28 Thread Eion Robb
Hi Myrna, That's a very very old version of Pidgin, and you should upgrade to 2.13 as there's been a lot of fixes (including security fixes) since 2.11. Unfortunately we can't help with your ShortKey macros, you'll need to reach out to the ShortKey support peoples instead. Cheers, Eion On Thu,

Using ShortKeys with Pidgin

2019-08-28 Thread Myrna Guerrero
Hello, I am using *Pidgin 2.11.0*(libpurple 2.11.0) and ShortKey Lite Version.3.6.0.1. I have used both this Applications for a very long time. I moved to a new computer and when I use the shortkey it sends the message automatically. Not allowing me to do any modifications to my script. I