[Pidgin] #13199: MSN friendly name not set properly if it begins with chinese characters

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#13199: MSN friendly name not set properly if it begins with chinese characters
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 Reporter:  Calanyo       |     Owner:  rekkanoryo
     Type:  defect        |    Status:  new       
Component:  unclassified  |   Version:  2.7.9     
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 I recently upgraded from 2.7.7 to 2.7.9 and noticed that it is no longer
 setting my friendly name correctly in MSN.

 I use three chinese characters for my name: 孫智光 (the name my chinese
 teacher game me!).  Everything was working fine with 2.7.7 but when I
 upgraded to 2.7.9, the first character was replaced by two "unknown"
 symbols: a black diamond with a white ? in the middle.  My friends on MSN
 saw them too.

 Normally, if I want to change my name, the old name is already present in
 the "Set Friendly Name" dialog, but when this problem occurs, the textbox
 is empty.

 If I try using those three characters preceded by any number of spaces I
 get the same thing but if I type any string that includes at least one
 character that isn't a space or a chinese character, then I can include
 those three characters after without any problem.  The problem only seems
 to occur then the first non-white char is a chinese one: "孫智光" " 孫智光" "不好!
 孫智光" "孫智光 孫智光" are all bad (in the third case, 不 is broken; in the last
 case, only the first 孫 is broken) but " x 孫智光" and "x 孫智光" work fine.

 Apologies if this is a duplicate, but I couldn't find anything like it
 using search.

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