Comments on: Pidgin (GTK) and Unicode Asian/Hebrew character font display issue

By: Ferret

Ferret — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:15:11 +0000

Thank you! this worked like a charm. I turned off the formatting and changed the font to Arial and now I can see Hebrew.

By: potatocrisp

potatocrisp — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:19:03 +0000

thanks! worked for me and for a friend too!

By: China News » Blog Archive » pidgin收msn消息显示方块乱码

China News » Blog Archive » pidgin收msn消息显示方块乱码 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:55:36 +0000

[...] pidgin 挂IM的时候，某几个MSN朋友发过来的消息总是显示成方块乱码。在这里找到比较完整的原因分析，基本说来并不能算是 pidgin 的问题，而是 pidgin [...]

By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:29:22 +0000

Why i see still when somebody answer me in hebrew it's from left to right side ? help me

By: eric

eric — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:17:44 +0000

yes changing theme and disable formatting worked like a charm!
if anyone else is annoyed by the backspace BEEP like me read the link here:
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/3683

By: yan

yan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:36:17 +0000

Thanks, it works!

By: pidgin - Asian Chars and personal message | SubSanity's Asylum

pidgin - Asian Chars and personal message | SubSanity's Asylum — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:25:05 +0000

[...] out working and somehow screwed up when I mucked around with the settings. I found a solution online, basically you go to your GTK Theme Selector and choose [...]

By: Cjblade54

Cjblade54 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:29:17 +0000

Thats awesome. Your solution is the best out of all the ones i researched online. Got it to work right away.

By: Fili

Fili — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:12:30 +0000

If I understand the problem - I think this one is simpler, just change the font used in the options to one that can display Chinese characters. That should take care of things.

By: Haihu

Haihu — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:37:42 +0000

Ah, I just noticed that I still can't type or read chinese characters while chatting. It all shows fine now on my buddylist, but not while chatting. I have chinese language support using XP and can type just fine in it in other programs. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks.