Thank all of you! Based on discussions in the ticket, I've updated pango to 1.18.4 and applied changes to pango.aliases and now everything works fine.
-Xinhua On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Daniel Atallah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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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