[Pidgin] #1124: [XMPP] Passwords containing non-ascii characters does not work

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#1124: [XMPP] Passwords containing non-ascii characters does not work
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 Reporter:  cartman  |        Owner:  nwalp
     Type:  defect   |       Status:  new  
Milestone:           |    Component:  XMPP 
  Version:  2.0      |   Resolution:       
 Keywords:           |  
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Comment(by Morbii):

 Sorry (I didn't even realize what XMPP was).  It's an ICQ account, but I'm
 not sure that it matters (or, it's the same bug with a different
 provider).  The problem seems to be with a non-ascii password - I have the
 idneitcal problem described in this bug.  I looked at accounts.xml and
 verified that the password is definitely stored correctly (so the ctrl-
 shift-u stuff was successful), but I'm continually denied being logged in.
 I tried changing the encoding of the accounts.xml file as a longshot (it
 did display visibly in notepad, but I was worried it might not read in
 correctly) and it didn't work.

 It might be helpful to mention that I am using the Windows version of
 Pidgin.

 Finally, as above, some important facts to mention.
 - Pidgin will not let me into my ICQ account that uses non-ascii chars for
 a password.  All other accounts work beautifully (and non have non-ascii
 chars).  I have verified the password in accounts.xml
 - ICQ 6 itself won't allow me to log in with my non-ascii password but ICQ
 Lite will.  The problem is that it forces me to immediately upgrade.  In
 ICQ6, even with auto-connect it will still fail if the password was saved
 over from ICQ Lite.  I can't change the password because the only way to
 do that is to log into ICQ6.
 - Trillian is the only IM client I can get to work with my ICQ password,
 but even it does funky things.  When you go to preferences, it
 automatically tells you "your password will be updated when you restart"
 and I immediately kill trillian.  Using Spy++ it shows that the password
 is missing the two non-ascii chars.

 Given the first two points (stored correctly in accounts.xml; auto-login
 saved from ICQ Lite still doesn't work in ICQ6), I suspect something about
 the password transport to the ICQ servers.  I don't know how this works at
 all, but perhaps it has to do with XML encoding?  Alternatively, it could
 be that ICQ6 updated the saved password "database" and simply sanitized my
 password to uselessness.

 Thanks for replying.

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