Comment 7 for bug 36278

(In reply to comment #6)
> a debug log, from running gaim with the -d flag, would still help. as best Stu
> and I can tell from the output here, that is valid UTF-8, so perhaps its a glib
> issue?

I also encountered this issue. It turned out to be related to a buddy with
extended characters in his name. "¬Šђαŵŋ -"

Adding an alias in ~/.gaim/blist.xml works around the issue (oddly enough, I can
view his name via gaim's "Get Info" just fine).

I'm afraid I'm not too familiar with gdb, so I just redirected the output of
running `gaim -d` within gdb, and the backtrace, to a file. If you need anything
else, just let me know.