Re: [gNewSense-users] A bug in Pidgin(or SCIM) with gNewSense2.1

[Kermit Mei]

J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> Kermit Mei wrote:
> > Hello, I use gtalk in pidgin. And When I input something(Non-ASCII by 
> > scim) more than three lines, the pidgin will crash!
> >
> > Is there anyone encounter that?
>
> I haven't encountered that, but I don't use Pidgin with non-ASCII text.
>
> I'd be surprised if this were a bug for gNewSense; have you checked 
> with Pidgin's developers to see if they're aware of the problem?
No. But I asked my friend to test this problem in ubuntu 8.10, and 
Pidgin works well.
> I'd suspect that you could see this same behavior with another 
> GNU/Linux distribution.  Have you tried doing the same thing with 
> another GNU/Linux distribution?  You might try this in a distribution 
> which doesn't inherit the same packages as gNewSense (so, not Ubuntu); 
> perhaps Fedora (since they have a live CD)?
>
> It seems to me that no matter what you put in the text box, Pidgin 
> should never crash.
Most of my friends use ubuntu, and it works well.  I was an opensuse 
User before, I hadn't encountered that.