Pidgin Encoding on Windows version

[Daniel Atallah]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 08:43, Ferreira, Wagner <wferreira at hp.com> wrote:
> I have been using pidgin on Windows Vista (English language), and I have been facing some problems about encoding.  Fact is that I’m Brazilian, and here we use several words with some specific punctuation.  What happens?  Look:
>
> If I write  olá, I get ola
> If I write não, I get nao
> If I write vovô, I get vovo
>
> I don´t know what happens, but I unfortunately can´t write any words that use characters as ´, ^, ~, `, and so on.
>
> Pidgin info:
>
> Pidgin 2.10.0 (libpurple 2.10.0)
> 93051ef2d941be32785c5fbb788ae3b0a0935b4d

This is actually not an encoding issue, it is a Input Method /
keyboard mapping issue, and it is a problem with the GTK+ support for
Windows keyboard layouts.

Which Windows keyboard layout are you using?
Which GTK+ Input Method are you using (Right-Click on the text entry
area in a Pidgin Conversation and see which Input Method is selected)?

There are a number of open GTK+ bugs that are related, e.g.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371371

-D