the gtkhtml system inserts <br> into the string as you are typing and using newline (ctrl-enter in my case). the msn protocol plugin passes the message text through msn/utils.c function that converts some common html formatting into MSN compatible ones, but <br> has no handler and ends up filtered out completely. --- work/gaim-0.77/src/protocols/msn/utils.c 2004-04-17 23:27:33.000000000 -0400 +++ /utils.c 2004-05-28 11:56:17.369701016 -0400 @@ -185,7 +185,13 @@ { if (*c == '<') { - if (!g_ascii_strncasecmp(c + 1, "i>", 2)) + if (!g_ascii_strncasecmp(c + 1, "br>", 3)) + { + msg[retcount++] = '\r'; + msg[retcount++] = '\n'; + c += 4; + } + else if (!g_ascii_strncasecmp(c + 1, "i>", 2)) { strcat(fonteffect, "I"); c += 3; the gaim ebuild told me over and over not to send bugs to gaim. don't understand that, but after waiting for each step of the ebuild process while i debugged and tested this, i figured i'd follow along. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gaim/gaim/src/protocols/msn/utils.c?r1=1.16&r2=1.17 That patch is already upstream in Gaim's CVS. Gaim-0.78 should be out in the next couple of days so I'm going to hold off on this for now. The reason that users are supposed to file bugs with the distro first are laid out here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1019166#1019166 It proves especially true here since you submitted a patch that was already in their CVS and would have wasted both yours and their time.
i have emerge gaim 0.78 today and it didn't work, the newline is not included and when i tried to emerge it with the patch it didn't work nither... :\
0.78 contains the exact same code as i added, and i verfied that newlines are working fine.
weird, that doesn;t work for me... :\ and i checked, i have the last version, did emerge sync emerged the newest version but no newlines on massages :\
