I'm trying Pidgin like I do some time to time to evaluate its progress.
I'm mainly an IRC user and I'm still confused to see the result in Pidgin.
The Chat is nealrly unreadable and I miss a lot of features like...let say writing in color. The Font Menu is grayed.
Is there way to set a background color for outgoing text in IRC mode ?
Any help appreciated,
a+, =)
-=Finiderire=-
Configuration : Pidgin v2.5.4 on Windows Vista x64 SP1 Ultimate
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
IRC does not support colors, some (many) clients support interpreting mangled control characters as signifying colors however. pidgin will either interpret or ignore (I forget which offhand) incoming formatting but (intentionally) provides no way to apply these control characters to outgoing messages.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
That's not a pidgin problem that's an encoding problem. You need to set your IRC account in pidgin to use the right encoding, as it would seem you aren't using UTF-8 (which is the default).
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
As you can see, your help resolved a part of the issue. There is still an issue with colors. Background colors seems to be forgotten, then if somebody speak "withe on color" I can't see nothing.
I'm not sure what I'm looking at in the screenshot. I see pidgin (presumably) correctly interpreting red foreground coloring, green foreground coloring, and blue background coloring.
Presumably, you are trying to indicate that some text is missing between the two ~ characters on the first line and between "a" and "questions" on the second. If that is the case what colors do you believe were in use there that pidgin isn't showing? If you select the text in that area do you see anything? It looks to me like perhaps your buddies were simply using a white foreground color (without setting a background color).
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
You're right, pidgin is correctly interpreting red foreground coloring and green foreground coloring. But the blue background coloring is wrong : it begins ok, then it is dropped, then back again.
Hi,
I'm trying Pidgin like I do some time to time to evaluate its progress.
I'm mainly an IRC user and I'm still confused to see the result in Pidgin.
The Chat is nealrly unreadable and I miss a lot of features like...let say writing in color. The Font Menu is grayed.
Is there way to set a background color for outgoing text in IRC mode ?
Any help appreciated,
a+, =)
-=Finiderire=-
Configuration : Pidgin v2.5.4 on Windows Vista x64 SP1 Ultimate
IRC does not support colors, some (many) clients support interpreting mangled control characters as signifying colors however. pidgin will either interpret or ignore (I forget which offhand) incoming formatting but (intentionally) provides no way to apply these control characters to outgoing messages.
Hi,
Because in France we speak with accented characters which are replaced by ?s (see picture sample) :
http://img2.pict.com/ef/31/88/e2bceeacd971f1db8bc56b1080/B5nEO/sample.png
a+, =)
-=Finiderire=-
By the way, what do you mean that 'the chat is nearly unreadable'?
That's not a pidgin problem that's an encoding problem. You need to set your IRC account in pidgin to use the right encoding, as it would seem you aren't using UTF-8 (which is the default).
Hi again,
As you can see, your help resolved a part of the issue. There is still an issue with colors. Background colors seems to be forgotten, then if somebody speak "withe on color" I can't see nothing.
http://img2.pict.com/4b/74/73/799320ff86025ebab2b45cc5e4/LVzGI/800/othersample.png
a+,=)
-=Finiderire=-
I'm not sure what I'm looking at in the screenshot. I see pidgin (presumably) correctly interpreting red foreground coloring, green foreground coloring, and blue background coloring.
Presumably, you are trying to indicate that some text is missing between the two ~ characters on the first line and between "a" and "questions" on the second. If that is the case what colors do you believe were in use there that pidgin isn't showing? If you select the text in that area do you see anything? It looks to me like perhaps your buddies were simply using a white foreground color (without setting a background color).
You're right, pidgin is correctly interpreting red foreground coloring and green foreground coloring. But the blue background coloring is wrong : it begins ok, then it is dropped, then back again.
http://img2.pict.com/f3/01/f7/2f578792e8d3bde4eea5c9a673/OYwgW/800/mirc.png
The text is white, and as there is no more background color it give this blind effect
a+, =)
-=Finiderire=-