ICQ Pidgin charset howto fix

Pidgin howto fix wrong charset encoding

Pidgin connect problem

"The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at http://pidgin.im/"
"Pidgin will not attmpt to reconnect the account until you correct the error and re-enable the account"

Read news at http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=16768 (thanks for url to Ksmster)

I found that it has just relised
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=235&package_id=230234

MY SOLUTION:
My Pidgin's version is 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1 Gutsy
My Pidgin's offset 0002:e83a


Download patch file at http://slil.ru/25950594
Auto download starts after 10 sec. File name is liboscardiff.tar.gz.

sudo apt-get install bsdiff
cd /directory/where/there/is/the/downloaded/patch
sudo tar -zxvf liboscardiff.tar.gz
sudo mv /usr/lib/purple-2/liboscar.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/purple-2/liboscar.so.0.0.0.original
sudo bspatch /usr/lib/purple-2/liboscar.so.0.0.0.original /usr/lib/purple-2/liboscar.so.0.0.0 ./liboscardiff

PS:
Simple as magic, and not need to install any apdates :)

Link to nice site:
http://www.meebo.com/