[Bug 1882401] Re: ctrl+space freezes irssi on focal

[Sebastien Bacher]

The fix to backport is https://patch-
diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/irssi/irssi/pull/1183.patch

Tagging for the foundation team to review, sounds like a worth SRU
candidate for focal

** Tags added: rls-ff-incoming

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Title:
  ctrl+space freezes irssi on focal

Status in irssi package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  see https://github.com/irssi/irssi/issues/1180

  there is a patch available for this that needs to be applied to irssi
  for focal

  from GitHub issue:

  "A change in GLib 2.63 broke some assumptions in Irssi that the null-
  byte NUL / U+0000 is a valid Unicode character. This would occur when
  the user types Ctrl+Space. As a result, the input loop never manages
  to process the NUL-byte (and any other user input that follows, ever).

  This affects all versions of Irssi as soon as your system is updated
  to this GLib version."

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