I'm using an AOL Instant Messenger account with Pidgin. Occasionally I'll get a message from someone that gets replaced with the error message:
(There was an error receiving this message. Either you and {screen name} have different encodings selected, or {screen name} has a buggy client.) This happens when people copy and paste things from Microsoft Word with smart quotes in them, and so on. Now, the people who send me these messages generally have no idea what a character encoding is, or even what a client is, buggy or otherwise. I'd be happy to change my character encoding to suit them, and I can probably guess which encoding they're using (based on their operating system, etc.) but I can't find an option to do that anywhere in Pidgin's interface. I also don't know the details of the AIM protocol to know which encodings it can or does use. I feel like I must be missing something blindingly obvious here. Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Setting-the-character-encoding-on-an-AIM-account-tp24420227p24420227.html Sent from the Pidgin Support List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support