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

[Daniel A. <dan...@gm...>]

> 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.
> >
<snip>
> > 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

In the GTK 2.4.14 install the pango.aliases file had a definition that
basically mapped tahoma to the same thing as arial:
tahoma = "arial,mingliu,simhei,gulimche,ms gothic,latha,mangal,code2000"

In GTK 2.6.2, this mapping wasn't done (an oversight on my part).

I believe Herman added this to fix this problem, i'm copying him on
this message, hopefully he will be able to further clarify.

Tahoma, the default font, (even though it is a "unicode font") seems
to only support a small subset which doesn't include CJK glyphs.

The side effect is that people complain because gaim doesn't look like
the rest of their system.

-D

> > >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.