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Fixes #7373, the new live messenger client now sends Segoe UI as the default font. Also why did we send CS=86? That stands for GB2312 in the windows world and will request the client to find a gb2312 capable font, which is probably one of the reasons why it picked a poor font for rendering English. The official client sends CS=1 which means default, so I am going to follow that

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