Bug#490010: Pasting text from Pidgin into itself produces gibberish

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda at deb.at> [2008-08-25 10:20:47 CEST]:
> * Tim Allen <screwtape at froup.com> [2008-08-23 12:48:42 CEST]:
> > Given that both I and the original reporter are using the PowerPC
> > architecture, I strongly suspect Pidgin has some bad endianness
> > assumptions.
> 
>  Hmm, your analysis makes it really sound like a it's an endianness bug.
> we now only have to find in what code it might be ...

 You are absolutely right, btw! I did paste a text into the input box,
selected that again, and pasted again - it came back properly. That is,
paste anything into there, ctrl-a, ctrl-c, ctrl-v did reverse the
mispasted stuff.

 With that we have at least a workaround - but no solution. But that the
changes are reversible should give at least some ideas.

 So long,
Rhonda