[OTR-users] Communication with Pidgin to Miranda (or others) has encoding problemes

[Paul Aurich]

And Rainer spake on 02/23/2009 02:42 AM, saying:
> I've experienced a problem during OTR encrypted communication between Pidgin
> and Miranda (or other clients). In short: several characters are encoded as
> HTML entities and so transmitted. E.g. an ampersand is sent as & or a
> newline is not the \n character (0x0A) but <br> instead. On the other way
> round, messages from Miranda to Pidgin are displayed correctly, but written
> HTML entities or tags like <br> will be extra parsed (so a newline is
> displayed instead of "<br>").

Your assumption that libpurple is entity-encoding the HTML entities and
transmitting them as such is fallacious.  They are *displayed* that way in
Miranda, but that is not evidence that they are transmitted as such.