[Pidgin] #13226: Bad encoding of archive viewed.

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#13226: Bad encoding of archive viewed.
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 Reporter:  Pascal Peyremorte      |        Owner:  rekkanoryo  
     Type:  defect                 |       Status:  new         
Milestone:                         |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.7.9                  |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  archive encoding UTF8  |  
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Comment(by Pascal Peyremorte):

 Hi,

 Thank you for the response.

 Yes, the older discussion is badly displayed in both views :
  - when I look it from the "archives viewer" : image Pidgin Ticket
 #13226-2.jpg or
  - directly in the "new discussion" form : image Pidgin Ticket
 #13226-1.jpg (the plugin "Historique 2.7.9" is activated).

 You can see that my contact (Xavier or Sally) archive messages are bad
 displayed. Mine are always ok. But during a new discussion, all messsages
 will be always rightly displayed.

 Yes also for the "third bulled point" : I looked the archives htm files
 with firefox.

 Where are the fonts setup ? In the preferences / Conversation, It is set
 as "Arial  normal, 10".
 Checking "Utiliser la police du thème" (Use the font of the theme) do not
 change anything, nor selecting any other font.

 [edit later]

 I FOUND SOMETHING !

 I viewed back in all conversation archives I have, looking for when the
 bad display starts.

 For aech contacts, the date where display start to be bad is different,
 but looking inside source of archive HTML log file, I discovered that for
 the 3, the righly displayed messages uses:
    <span style='font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif;'>
 while the badly displayed uses:
    <span style='font-family: Segoe UI;'>

 I did not found any "Segoe" font on any of our computers (XP SP3). So, I
 think it is replaced by an incompatible font by pidgin, but by a better
 one by firefox...

 Do you know which font would be used in replacement for "Segoe UI" when it
 is missing ?
 Is there any place to define alias fonts for pidgin ?

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