Empathy chat error sending messages with utf-8 charset encoding in spanish

[Luis Miraballes Corbo]

Binary package hint: empathy

Every time I write a message in the chat window, I get an error message like this: Error al enviar el mensaje «ñ, á, é, í, ó, ú, ¿»: desconocido.
I think this only happens when I use Spanish characters (encoding utf-8) such as ñ, á, é, í, ó, ú, ¿.
When I do not use these characters, the message is successfully sent.
Does anyone have the same problem?

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic (updated)
Empathy 2.28.1.1 (updated)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Dec 2 11:40:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=es_UY.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.