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Fixes a bad MSN bug where passwords with multi-byte utf8 characters near the 16 byte mark would cause a segmentation fault due to chopping the multi-byte character and turning the string into invalidate utf8. Thanks to Shaun Lindsay at Meebo for tracking this down and fixing it.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the
HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.