Newlines in messages are ignored

[m-urban]

Hi there,

I wanted to report an issue that I recently discovered: Whenever I am forcing a linebreak in a message (\n), an empty message will be sent instead. E.g.

Line1
Line2

Line4

will become "". Also

Line1
Line2

will result in an empty message.

I have noticed that this issue affects both the purple-facebook and telegram-purple plugins, which leads me to think that it's either a problem with libpurple or spectrum. In case that it's a problem with libpurple, I'll be happy to file a bug report with them.
The message itself will be sent, however, which I can see in facebook's webinterface. It will appear as an empty message, though.

[vitalyster]

To be sure it is our problem - try the same with pidgin or finch

[m-urban]

Uh. This is ugly. It seems that Messages.app on the Mac is playing a major role in this problem. Since I had it installed already, I just tried Adium as a client and the messages came through ok-ish. BUT: Adium seems to send the test message

Line1
Line2

Line4

as

    Line1 Line2  Line4

I tried both Telegram and facebook and both show this very same behavior.

So it seems, Apple didn't get the newline character right for Jabber accounts in their Messages.app (btw. this works fine for their proprietary iMessages…). But still, newlines seem to be misinterpreted somewhere along the way between Adium→spectrum→Telegram/facebook. Could this be a problem with spectrum at all?

[vitalyster]

@m-urban answer is still the same - try to set up pidgin or finch (or adium, if it supports telegram or facebook purple plugin) with the plugin account (without spectrum!) and check if problem still exists

[m-urban]

So I tried Adium with the telegram-purple plugin and the newline is interpreted and sent correctly. I wasn't able to test the purple-facebook plugin in the same way because it's not availble for Adium.

EDIT: I mean I tried Adium with the telegram-purple plugin directly without spectrum as a gateway.

[Programie]

Is there already any progress in this issue?

I'm having the same issue with different transports (Facebook and Steam), both via the libpurple backend. Is this an issue caused by libpurple or Spectrum?

I can reproduce this issue with Gajim on Linux as well as with Conversations on Android, so the client shouldn't be the issue.

Whenever I send a message with multiple lines, all line breaks are replaced by spaces which can look pretty strange in some cases.

My current workaround is to send each line as a separate message which can be really annoying for the recipient.