[Pidgin] #13813: italics need to be disabled for gchat

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#13813: italics need to be disabled for gchat
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 Reporter:  Moggraider       |        Owner:  darkrain42 
     Type:  enhancement      |       Status:  new        
Milestone:  Patches welcome  |    Component:  Google Talk
  Version:  2.7.11           |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:                   |  
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Changes (by darkrain42):

  * type:  defect => enhancement
  * milestone:  => Patches welcome


Comment:

 Some Google-specific clients (certainly at least the gmail web interface,
 which is the only one I have handy for tests) do not handle the XEP which
 specifies the proper method for relaying markup (XHTML-IM), but instead
 use wiki-style (or whatever you'd like to call it) markup along the lines
 of `*foo*` or `_foo_` (oddly, the latter translates to italics, not
 underlines).

 We will not simply disable italics for XMPP accounts (or even those which
 we detect to be Google Talk) because specific other clients do not support
 italics, as we'd receive far more bug reports that suddenly italics
 weren't working.

 libpurple currently handles the Google-specific formatting markup on
 ingress.  I'd be willing to accept a well-written patch which performs the
 same sorts of conversions on egress (although ideally it would make some
 attempt to only do so for Google-specific clients that are known not to
 support XHTML-IM; this being difficult because they don't identify
 themselves as such via the standards-based methods for service discovery).

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