pidgin can not display chinese character under vista

[Luke Schierer]

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.

luke


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