{"id":1497,"date":"2008-03-31T22:38:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T06:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/pidgin-v241-fixes-unicode-support-for-aim\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T22:38:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T06:38:02","slug":"pidgin-v241-fixes-unicode-support-for-aim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/pidgin-v241-fixes-unicode-support-for-aim\/","title":{"rendered":"Pidgin v2.4.1 fixes Unicode Support for AIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got a notice that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pidgin.im\/\">Pidgin<\/a> v2.4.1 was released. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.pidgin.im\/wiki\/ChangeLog\">changelog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Treat AIM Unicode messages as UTF-16 rather than UCS-2; this should have no functional effect, other than continued support on systems which have dropped UCS-2 conversions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I noted, it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/pidgin\/\">major blocker for me to fully adopt Pidgin<\/a>, but I guess they got the message from all the feedback they have been receiving. I just gave the new version a whirl, and it has indeed fixed AIM Unicode support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got a notice that Pidgin v2.4.1 was released. According to the changelog: Treat AIM Unicode messages as UTF-16 rather than UCS-2; this should have no functional effect, other than continued support on systems which have dropped UCS-2 conversions. As I noted, it was a major blocker for me to fully adopt Pidgin, but I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/pidgin-v241-fixes-unicode-support-for-aim\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pidgin v2.4.1 fixes Unicode Support for AIM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[418,417,416,451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}