On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Andrey Subbotin wrote: > Hello all. > > I use Gaim as my IM client to the ICQ network and would really like to > find a way to send/receive messages in Russian using this client. I believe the problem is that you need to install a cyrillic font. I don't currently have GAIM running, so I can't check to see how easy it is to set this. Unicode is Fedora's standard, which supports the cyrillic font, but I don't knwo that GAIM doesn't default to a western-standard font. Also, you need to be sure that your font matches the character set you're inputtin from the keyboard. The standard for all Linux/Unix machines is KOI8(R), which is built in to the Linux kernal. Windows uses a W-1251 standard. Unicode, KOI8, and W-1251 are *not* compatable. You will see garbage if you're using the wrong font. So, while I don't have an immediate guaranteed solution, hopefully this has been of some use... Krikket
