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Set charset=utf-8 when cyrus sasl doesn't include it. Both deryni and my reading of the digest md5 cyrus plugin is that the response will never actually include the charset (digestmd5.c:make_client_response, look for IsUTF8). I future-proofed this code by checking for it anyway. To be polite for older servers, we might want to only send this if the server sent charset=utf-8 in the challenge (and encode everything to ISO-8859-1). However, the RFC doesn't say always sending it is wrong (and that's what the in-tree implementation does).

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.