On (16:40 04/01/09), John Bailey <rekkano...@rekkanoryo.org> put forth the proposition: >Dave Wood wrote: >> I am still plagued by ?'s instead of some characters. Is it possible to >> select different character sets like cp1252 etc? >> >> Cheers and a happy new year. > >No; Finch requires a properly configured terminal capable of supporting UTF-8 >if >it is built with libncursesw. You may be able to get around this by rebuilding >Finch to link with libncurses instead.
Ok I'll look into that. Thanks. I'm using a utf-8 linux console (set in lilo) and my TERM=xterm-xfree86 as I find this a bit friendlier with other programs like screen, vim etc. I'm using a latin font - lat9w-16.psfu.gz - but I find various fonts better/worse support for unusual characters. Cybercafe font seems to have the correct symbols for finch, but it's very hard on the eyes to read. I've found with elinks I can play about with character sets and show characters that are often shown as '?'. Cheers > >John > > >_______________________________________________ >Support mailing list >Support@pidgin.im >http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support -- Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
