[Pidgin] #8745: Option to disable outgoing auto-formatting

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#8745: Option to disable outgoing auto-formatting
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 Reporter:  ng              |           Owner:              
     Type:  defect          |          Status:  pending     
Milestone:                  |       Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.5.5           |      Resolution:              
 Keywords:  html, messages  |   Launchpad_bug:              
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Changes (by deryni):

  * status:  new => pending


Comment:

 The right-click menu in the entry area provides a 'Paste as plain text'
 option for exactly this sort of use, that is pasting text from a website
 (or other location) without getting the associated formatting. pidgin
 should not be transforming normal line breaks into XHTML-IM formatting as
 far as I am aware, and as I have said more than once if a client that
 doesn't support XHTML-IM formatting is displaying the XHTML-IM formatted
 text that pidgin sends then that client is simply flat out broken, as
 pidgin sends the text both formatted and un-formatted (as
 required/suggested by the XEP).

 So while I can see the desire for the feature as requested the reality is
 that for the most part it really isn't needed. There is a valid bug
 related to this though which is that pidgin always sends the formatted
 text even when no formatting exists, and that is a bug that is being fixed
 (#8738).

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8745#comment:1>
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