[Pidgin] #14069: wrong password saved

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#14069: wrong password saved
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 Reporter:  housemeister  |        Owner:  rekkanoryo         
     Type:  defect        |       Status:  pending            
Milestone:                |    Component:  Yahoo!/Yahoo! JAPAN
  Version:  2.9.0         |   Resolution:                     
 Keywords:                |  
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Changes (by darkrain42):

  * status:  new => pending
  * component:  unclassified => Yahoo!/Yahoo! JAPAN
  * milestone:  Patches welcome =>


Old description:

> pidgin 2.7.11
> gtk rt: 2.16.6
> glib rt: 2.20.5
> os: win xp sp 3
>
> I changed my password in yahoo online using the y! website.
> I was able to login into the website.
>
> Now I started pidgin and it told me: wrong password
> I edited the y! account using a password manager which "typed" the
> password letter by letter in the password field.
> I saved the password and retried it: wrong password (once again).
>
> Now I thought: what is going on here. So I opened the accounts.xml and
> took a look at the entry. I noticed that the special character [ was not
> saved. I retried the password changing and noticed that there is a
> missing letter in the password field. So I "typed" the password to the
> browser's address bar and copyed it using CTRL+C and V to the password
> field and it worked. Now I do not know I this is pidgin bug and a bug of
> my password manager (Alle Meine Passworte, german). This is the first
> time I noticed such a problem and I have several passwords using those
> characters.

New description:

 {{{
 pidgin 2.7.11
 gtk rt: 2.16.6
 glib rt: 2.20.5
 os: win xp sp 3
 }}}

 I changed my password in yahoo online using the y! website.
 I was able to login into the website.

 Now I started pidgin and it told me: wrong password
 I edited the y! account using a password manager which "typed" the
 password letter by letter in the password field.
 I saved the password and retried it: wrong password (once again).

 Now I thought: what is going on here. So I opened the accounts.xml and
 took a look at the entry. I noticed that the special character [ was not
 saved. I retried the password changing and noticed that there is a missing
 letter in the password field. So I "typed" the password to the browser's
 address bar and copyed it using CTRL+C and V to the password field and it
 worked. Now I do not know I this is pidgin bug and a bug of my password
 manager (Alle Meine Passworte, german). This is the first time I noticed
 such a problem and I have several passwords using those characters.

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Comment:

 So you're saying that you had to enter your password with "%5B" instead of
 "["?

 When you changed your password on Yahoo's website, did you type your
 password in there manually, or did your password manager enter it?

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