[Pidgin] #5995: Logout on paste of Unicode character

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#5995: Logout on paste of Unicode character
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  Reporter:  insomn1a  |       Owner:  deryni                    
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                       
  Priority:  minor     |   Milestone:                            
 Component:  XMPP      |     Version:  2.4.1                     
Resolution:            |    Keywords:  unicode character breaking
   Pending:  1         |  
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Comment (by chemistrydioxide):

 Replying to [comment:5 datallah]:
 > But it isn't actually an "invalid" character to send, is it?
 >
 > We could strip the BOM (which would presumably avoid this particular
 server bug), but I'm not sure there is anything fundamentally wrong with
 sending it.

 I thought XMPP only allows UTF-8, so there shouldn't be any use for BOMs
 in XMPP, especially not in particular messages.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/5995#comment:6>
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