meebo support

I'm seeing a different language displayed when I log in

There was probably an inadvertent selection of another language during the sign on process to meebo.

1. When you visit the meebo sign on page at http://www.meebo.com, scroll all the way down the page. In the example below, you'll see the word Italiano with an arrow to the right of it, and some of the words showing up in Italian:
   
2. Click on the arrow just to the right of Italiano and select English as shown below:
   
3. You'll notice that those Italian words are now in English. Now when you log into your meebo or IM account, you will be in the language you want to be in!

Chatting in Russian using ICQ network, sometimes see gibberish

Unfortunately, ICQ isn't the best about using non-ASCII characters. The standard English alphabet is pretty universal in the computer world. There generally aren't problems with it, but when you start using characters that aren't used in English you can run into problems. Basically when you transmit some letters over the network, some letters can be encoded in more than one way, like Russian and Chinese characters, for example. So when you have two people talking to each other using an instant messenger, it's important that the two instant messaging programs use the same schemes to encode the characters. Unfortunately the ICQ protocol doesn't do a very good job of that. We are aware of the issue, but it will probably be a while before we're able to improve it.