[Pidgin] #2966: Under Vista, Hebrew does not work in most places in the UI

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#2966: Under Vista, Hebrew does not work in most places in the UI
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  Reporter:  kopo             |       Owner:  datallah                           
      Type:  defect           |      Status:  reopened                           
  Priority:  minor            |   Milestone:                                     
 Component:  winpidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.1.1                              
Resolution:                   |    Keywords:  windows vista hebrew ui fonts segoe
   Pending:  0                |  
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Comment (by idangazit):

 Applied some google-elbow-grease to this issue, looks like it's a problem
 with how pango works in win32... :( Tor Lillqvist (Win32 GTK maintainer
 and hacker extraordinaire)
 [http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.gimp.windows.user/13657 ran
 into this issue] and also suggested the pango.aliases fix, except he
 realized it doesn't work:

   Unfortuntely, the above won't work, as Pango doesn't like spaces in the
 aliased (left-hand side) font name in pango.aliases... Putting
 doublequotes around it doesn't work either...

 So sadly, if Segoe UI is used as the system font then the pango.aliases
 trick will not work. In the rest of the posting he suggests changing the
 system font to something without a space in the name (like Tahoma) and
 then the pango.aliases approach will work.

 I have found that using GtkThemeSelector and choosing a non MS-Windows GTK
 theme also works -- but results in a non-ms-windows-look-and-feel. :(

 Another useful tip: under vista, to change the global theme engine used,
 you must run GtkThemeSelector.exe as administrator.

 So for now this is an upstream issue. I filed a ticket on pango,
 [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515545 #515545]

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