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Fix a possible MSN remote crash Incoming messages with certain characters or character encodings can cause clients to crash. The fix is for the contents of all incoming plaintext messages are converted to UTF-8 and validated before used. This was reported to us by Fabian Yamaguchi and this patch was written by Elliott Sales de Andrade (maybe with small, insignificant changes by me)

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.