[Pidgin] #7328: Nick highlighting in a chat room interprets special characters as their entity names

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#7328: Nick highlighting in a chat room interprets special characters as their
entity names
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 Reporter:  ari           |     Owner:  lschiere
     Type:  defect        |    Status:  new     
Component:  unclassified  |   Version:  2.5.2   
 Keywords:                |  
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 From Debian bug report http://bugs.debian.org/502802:

 It seems that pidgin will treat '&' as the literal text 'amp' in an irc
 chat. Not very nice if your nick is 'amp', as you will get the 'someone
 mentioned your name' event for every '&'. This also seems to happen for
 'lt' and '<'.

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