There are some upsream patches that fix crash/hang (see bug #297059) and memory leaks. Without this patches version 1.3.8 is rather unstable So i'm buming patched net-im/licq-1.3.8-r1 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 215267 [details] ebuild
Created attachment 215268 [details, diff] patch for really enabling/disablig hebrew support
Created attachment 215269 [details, diff] patch for hebrew support
Created attachment 215271 [details, diff] memory leak patch
+*licq-1.3.8-r1 (05 Jan 2010) + + 05 Jan 2010; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> +licq-1.3.8-r1.ebuild, + +files/licq-1.3.8-hebrew.patch, +files/licq-1.3.8-memory_leak.patch: + Fix memory leak and hebrew support wrt #299734, thanks to Andy Crook for + reporting. Remove USE="kde" since it's broken (upstream) with default + Oxygen theme wrt #296929, thanks to Marcel Semancik for reporting.
Unrelated to this bug: Andy, since you use Licq, please take a look at bug 220637 and provide feedback.