If characters &#x4 are anywhere in ICQ message, recipiant fails to recieve them.

[Patrick Kilgore]

A bug was reported on launchpad at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/215634

Where if the characters &#x4 are anywhere in an ICQ message that message fails to be received by a recipient. For Example one user would see: bobs_friend: Hi! user_bob: Hey whats up! &#x4 user_bob: Nice day!

A friend would see: bobs_friend: Hi! user_bob: user_bob: Nice Day!

I admit this is fairly minor in scope, but could possibly be a minor example of a more important flaw like failing to properly escape special characters in a message. Or this could be a feature of ICQ and not a bug and I just didn't manage to find where it was written down.

Thanks.

[bernmeister]

Does this still happen in Pidgin 2.5.8? Can you please verify?