tags 39753 patch thanks note: this reply is to the first message in this bug, the second message looks like it could be a seperate (but most likely similar) issue.
from the most recent changelog: * 06_irc-signal-crash.patch: - Add patch to work around crash on receiving non-ASCII characters in IRC by not emitting the new "irc-receiving-text" signal; the text from the server needs to be normalized into proper UTF-8 before sending it to dbus. from looking at the backtrace and the source it seems there is an "irc-sending-text" signal that also needs to be disabled, i've attatched a modified version of the irc signal crash patch and put a set of debs at http://plugwash.bircd.org/gaimirccrashfix/ for testing, can the reporters of this bug please test if my change fixes their problem.
06_irc-signal-crash.patch
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