[Pidgin] #4753: IRC messages silently truncated to first ~500 characters

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#4753: IRC messages silently truncated to first ~500 characters
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  Reporter:  tmetro  |       Owner:  elb  
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new  
  Priority:  minor   |   Milestone:       
 Component:  IRC     |     Version:  2.3.1
Resolution:          |    Keywords:       
   Pending:  0       |  
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Comment (by mandie722):

 Pidgin does report an error in AIM chat windows.  I run into this all the
 time and it would be nice to have something that would at least warn you
 when you are exceeding the message size limit for that protocol.

 Message appears as follows in the History window:

 (4:31:10 PM) Unable to send message: The message is too large.

 In the debug window you see:

 (16:31:10) oscar: Could not send ..... because (489 > maxlen 2000) or (489
 > maxvis 232)

 Ideas would be to:

 1. Have a character count on the text input and have it display the max
 number of characters allowed so you can see when you may have input too
 much.

 2. Have the text input box stop allowing any further text once you have
 hit the maximum length.

 3. Split the message into multiple messages of the appropriate length.
 This could trigger spam alerts though.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4753#comment:2>
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