[Pidgin] #12656: Unable to type RTL (farsi, arabic, etc) text in IM window

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#12656: Unable to type RTL (farsi, arabic, etc) text in IM window
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 Reporter:  Hossein                            |        Owner:              
     Type:  defect                             |       Status:  new         
Milestone:                                     |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.7.3                              |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  farsi persian arabic bidi RTL r2l  |  
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Description changed by Hossein:

Old description:

> In Pidgin 2.7.3, when you press Alt+Shift to switch to an RTL language,
> in my case Farsi (Persian), when you type in an IM window nothing
> appears, neither for you nor for your friend.
> In Pidgin 2.6.4, I remember that it sent <SPAN>s enclosing your text to
> the other party, now I updated to 2.7.3 and i can't even type farsi.

New description:

 In Pidgin 2.7.3, when you press Alt+Shift to switch to an RTL language, in
 my case Farsi (Persian), when you type in an IM window nothing appears,
 neither for you nor for your friend.

 In Pidgin 2.6.4, I remember that it sent <SPAN>s enclosing your text to
 the other party, now I updated to 2.7.3 and i can't even type farsi.

 Edit: I wonder if other Unicode languages have the same problem? Is there
 something with pidgin's Unicode support?

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