2008/2/28 Luke Schierer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Xinhua Ji wrote: > > Hi, > > I downloaded pidgin 2.3.1 and installed on vista. Chinese characters in > > contacts name can not be displayed (see attached screenshot). The > > conversation window also can not display chinese until I uncheck > > "preference/conversation/font/use font from theme" and choose a font > > "simsun". However, this does not solve the contacts name problem. > > I am running Vista Enterprise. The same package works well in XP. > > I googled a lot and tried something like putting "gtk-font-name = > > "SimSun 12" " in .gtkrc-2.0 under %userprofile% directory, while it does > > affect something but still not chinese characters. > > > > Anyone can suggest where to look at this problem? > > Thanks, > > Xinhua Ji > > Pidgin can display Chinese characters, if you have the fonts for them, > and if gtk can find those fonts. > > I'm afraid I do not know how to make gtk see more of your installed > fonts on a windows system.
This is being tracked in a couple tickets in our trac instance: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/604 The specific Vista problem is outlined in: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/2966 -D
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