[Pidgin] #604: Asian Characters not appearing on buddy list

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#604: Asian Characters not appearing on buddy list
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 Reporter:  PSyMastR  |        Owner:  datallah       
     Type:  defect    |       Status:  new            
Milestone:            |    Component:  winpidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.0       |   Resolution:                 
 Keywords:            |  
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Comment(by hueykam):

 I had the same problem with the current Pidgin 2.5.2 with Traditional
 Chinese Font.
 The solution to let the font fall back to use MingLiu.

 Here's the detail instructions for slow people (like myself):

 1) Edit the pango.aliases (with WordPad)
 It's at c:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\etc\pango\pango.aliases

 2) Add the following lines:
 arial = "arial,mingliu"
 verdana = "verdana,mingliu"

 3) Restart Pidgin.

 Summary:
 The idea in step 2 is to tell Pango that if the font comes in as arial,
 use arial, if u can't then fall back to use mingliu etc etc

 Bcos most other people just use default Arial to type their messages.
 Apparently, people can enter Traditional Chinese messages with Arial fonts
 too, but Pidgin on this side needs to be able to display it.

 Similar idea should be applicable for other languages.
 However, if you still cannot view the message after doing this, try to
 find out what font the other person sends it in, then do similar addition
 to step 2.

 ie if the font is XXX, then you know YYY font can display it.
 then use XXX = XXX,YYY

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/604#comment:38>
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