A workaround for pidgin is to go to the Advanced tab in the Account properties and change the Encodings to UTF-8,CP1252 and check the "Auto- detect incoming UTF-8". This will mimic the X-Chat behavior.
-- pidgin sets wrong encoding, and doenst see xchat encoding https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/374421 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
