[Gaim-devel] Re: Need help with unicode support in Gaim v1.1.3

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:46:30AM -0800, James K eMaas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I guess I forgot to mention that I'm on Windows XP Pro. I just took a 
> look @ pango.aliases file. I figured it's what your talking about.
> 
> courier = "courier new"
> 
> sans = "arial,browallia new,mingliu,simhei,gulimche,ms gothic,latha,mangal"
> serif = "times new roman,angsana new,mingliu,simsun,gulimche,ms 
> gothic,latha,mangal"
> monospace = "courier new,courier monothai,mingliu,simsun,gulimche,ms 
> gothic,latha,mangal"
> 
> This is what I found there. It looks like all the fonts necessary for 
> CJK is there, unless this is the wrong place.
> 
> Thanks for your quick response and hopefully you can help me figure this 
> out.

I am fairly sure I saw datallah have a user edit this file to fix a 
substantially similar problem just recently, I am cc'ing the gaim list 
to see if anyone remembers any more.

luke



> 
> TTFN.
> 
> Luke Schierer wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:55:04AM -0800, James K eMaas wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I upgraded from Gaim v1.1.2 to v1.1.3.  Everything seems to work fine 
> >>except double byte characters.  I could type and also see people's names 
> >>in CJK, but now I can't do any of it.  Everything just shows up as 
> >>boxes.  I know it happens when you don't have the right font usually, 
> >>but it was working just fine in v1.1.2.  It's really aggravating not 
> >>being able to see people's names and also not being able to type 
> >>responses.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >this is on windows or unix?  on windows, some users have had to add 
> >fonts to the pango config files.
> >
> >luke
> >
> > 
> >
> -- 
> James