wrong character encoding in pidgin

Binary package hint: pidgin

Wrong cyrillic text encoding in pidgin in both 10.04 and 10.10.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 26 21:48:51 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1353): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1350): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1299): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed
 (gnome-power-manager:1298): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed