[Pidgin] #5077: QQ message text and sender(Pidgin)'s nick all changed to: "(NULL)"

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#5077: QQ message text and sender(Pidgin)'s nick all changed to: "(NULL)"
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 Reporter:  Med               |        Owner:  seanegan       
     Type:  defect            |       Status:  closed         
Milestone:  2.4.1             |    Component:  winpidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.4.0             |   Resolution:  fixed          
 Keywords:  NULL nick change  |  
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Comment(by ssb22):

 For what it's worth, another workaround is to patch the binary
 plugins\qq.dll and change GB18030 to GB2312 + null byte.  (Can do this in
 Python: dat=open("qq.dll","rb").read().replace("GB18030","GB2312"+chr(0))
 ; open("qq.dll","wb").write(dat)

 This works because the buggy GTK has no problem with the GB2312 character
 set, only the GB18030 character set.  GB2312 is a subset of GB18030.  In
 practice you will probably be using characters that are in GB2312 (unless
 you use QQ to write Traditional Chinese or other languages).  This works
 for me and saves me from having to mess around with installing different
 GTK versions etc.

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