If someone sends me a message with a different font-family, font size, bold, italic, underline or colour from a yahoo messenger client on windows, the text is shown plain, with no styles. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ask someone to send you a message with some style 2. receive the message Actual Results: The received message is stripped of the style. Expected Results: The received message should be styled as the sender styled it.
There is no support in the backend for this. We cannot do anything whilst that is not there. Please chase up with telepathy-haze for rich text message support on bugs.freedesktop.org