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--- Comment #9 from Yao Ziyuan coolspeech@hotmail.com 2008-10-29 09:24:58 EDT --- actually, this is a bug in fedora 8, 9 and 10. in fedora 7 i didn't encounter it.
it is not a bug of pidgin itself, since i also used recent versions of ubuntu (7.10, 8.04, 8.10) with recent versions of pidgin (2.4.x, 2.5.x) without the problem.
it is a bug about how fedora 8/9/10 compiles, packages and configures pidgin. (maybe a compile argument related to scim is missing?)
for now, just disable all IRC accounts in your pidgin so you can input chinese when IM'ing your friends. use x-chat as a separate solution for irc.