Friend name and fonts

[DevTeam] [Zeke]: I love that I get emailed when someone reports spam on the boards, but I can't do anything about it.
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: lol i got you
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: How about "hide email address from public checked" and it's still visible in all my posts...
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: I'd delete my account on this site, but by the time I realized the problem half the spambots on the planet had it already
[Developer] [Pazza]: Astaldo if you log out and view your profile with a refresh you'll see that your email is hidden.
[Developer] [Pazza]: Your user level on the forums permit you to see emails even though they are marked hidden.
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: Ah.. thanks for the clarification and apologies for "crying wolf" in that case :
[DevTeam] [Kaidenn]: PAZZA! i miss you.
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: Lol, it's funny how it takes spam message reports to get me to come back
[DevTeam] [sylvanaar]: Check out the beta tester forum. Need alpha testers and feedback so I can come up with a maintenance plan.
[Developer] [Pazza]: loaded some new spam prevention modules... lets see if this stops the bastards.
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: Thought I'd check in and say Howdy Doody from Australia
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: Yeah the spam from shoes salesmen was becoming insane
[Guest] [Delakando]: What ever happened to the ability to track friend's location by wim? Other then just showing their general zone location.
Zeke pokes his head around the corner.
[DevTeam] [Zeke]: Anybody home?
[Guest] [Theillur]: I would like to know if it is just me.
[Guest] [Theillur]: http://www.wimaddon.com/forums/index.php/topic,1796.0.html
[Guest] [Nev]: I'm here
[Guest] [Nev]: I don't think anyone else is though
[Guest] [tomasio]: great site [url=http://freeonlinemusicvideos.net].[/url] [url=http://freepeopleclothing.org].[/url]
[Guest] [Theillur]: Nev it is not working for Zeke as well.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: im here
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: ...
lothaer yawns sleepily.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: sooooooooooooooooo
[Guest] [j3ff]: Hello. It is very quiet. I would love a response to my thread directly below your "Been very quiet" thread!
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Check out my new post in the Skins forum
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Posted a new download in the skins forum check it out
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Zeke, Maziel, Pazza, Nachonut, sylvanaar, Kaidenn, Astaldo where are you?
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: It would be a real shame if WIM was left to die.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: i think these forums are dead, Sylvanaar dosnt post on them as he only bug fixes when possible. WIMs future isnt very bright
[Guest] [justgiz]: Yea, its rather sad.
[Guest] [silvercola]: I wish it had skype
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: noy possible for a addon to do.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: ...........
[Guest] [elzershark]: where is the download file?
lothaer beckons everyone over to you.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: has anyone been able to take WIM to the beta yet?
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: PTR*
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: *sticks head up and looks around*
lothaer cries.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: who the hell flagged my post as spam?
[Guest] [primalforce]: Hey guys
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: hello Primalforce.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: PAZZA COME BACK!!!
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: Ahhh memories
[Guest] [Ignis]: wtb update
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: soooo.....
Pazza starts to complain... Kinda reminds you of Sloans dont it?

[Feleye]

That issue was probably here since ever, but I only noticed it when real id friends came in.

The thing is, the font that is used to display the name on top of the chat window does not support all characters used in European names. The one that comes to my mind are Polish letters, such as óńłźćęąż. While some of them are displayed correctly, many are not. Since many of my friends are Polish, many of them have such letters in their name, so that when I chat with them, their names are displayed incorrectly.

Mind that this issue only affects the display of the name on top of the actual chat window. Fonts used to display the actual message, or history of messages display those letters just fine.

I have looked into WIM options, and there is an option allowing to change font, but it only changes fonts inside the chat window, not on top of it. I have also tried looking into WIM folder for fonts in hope to replace it, but I didn't find any in there.

[Pazza]

You wont find any font files in WIM because I use the games fonts or fonts shared in LibSharedMedia. Anyway, you can fix this manually though it might be a little confusing for some. Give it a shot....

In Addons/WIM/Skins/Default/skin.lua  modify line #94 by replacing GameFontNormalLarge with ChatFontNormal. See if that fixes things up for you. Im surprised the game is using fonts not supported for other languages.

Let me know if that helps you. Just note, unfortunately, you will have to redo this every time you update WIM. sorry. If anything I can make you a custom skin to use. Or I might just change it to that font by default depending how it looks.

[Feleye]

This have fixed the problem for me.

However, I have found one more place WIM uses the general WoW font to display name. It's in the tooltip showing details about player (game played, character name, location). It's not as big deal, as the tooltip is not displayed all the time during chat, still I would love to know where in code can I change that one

Anyway, thanks for help. I guess I will just keep changing it myself when you update WIM.

[Pazza]

I'm glad it worked... I already updated my default theme to use the same font as the friends list. if it shows correctly there it should correctly in the WIM window as well... I will adjust the fonts in the tooltip as well if its accessible as i believe i am using Blizzs template... I'll look.

[Feleye]

TBH, the default friend list font does not support Polish letters as well. Chat font is displaying names just fine, but the friend list font (which I believe uses the default game font) doesn't. Personally I have installed the fonts Blizzard provided on their FTP with the release of patch 3.3.5, to fix this problem. It then adds support to display names on in-game friend list properly.

Yet I guess that using the friend list font instead of game font could solve the problem for those that want it to be solved, as WIM would adapt to the custom changes of font.