Hi Alex, Unfortunately the version of GTK we use on Windows versions of Pidgin isn't new enough to support emoji characters. As a workaround you can use one of the unicode emoji emote themes, eg https://github.com/stv0g/unicode-emoji or https://github.com/VxJasonxV/emoji-for-pidgin
Cheers, Eion On 2 November 2016 at 11:57, Alex Oren <pid...@alexoren.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem displaying smileys sent from Hangouts contacts, anything > except the basic :) -- which is shown as displays as "tofu". I tried > overriding the font used with Google's Noto but it didn't help. > > I am currently using the "Default-with-Skype" Smiley theme by Hylke Bons. > The problem with switching to a Hangouts-specific theme is that I actually > use Pidgin as a multi-protocol client, with buddies on Jabber, SkypeWeb, > Hangouts, AIM, Facebook, Steam and Flist (I got rid of Yahoo due to the > high crappiness quotient of the protocol) and would like a theme that will > support all of them (and possibly others). > > However, even without using a theme, the smilies should display as the > corresponding unicode characters. > What am I missing? > > PS, running on Windows. > > Thanks, > Alex. > > _______________________________________________ > Support@pidgin.im mailing list > Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: > https://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
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