RE: Language characters

[martyn 2 russell bt com]

> > > No idea. You should never get blocks for a character if 
> there is any
> > > font on your system that can handle it; changing locale just 
> > > changes the
> > > order in which fonts are selected.
> > >
> > > (Assuming that you are using pango-1.2.x/fontconfig/Xft2)

When I said I get blocks for a character, this is what I meant, here is a
screenshot:
http://gnome-jabber.sourceforge.net/screenshot-characterblocks.png

(see the "Status" value under the "Presence / Subscription").

In this case, his name is in Chinese.  If I debug the application in xemacs,
I see the correct chinese characters?!

Regards,
Martyn