Kopete bug/curiosity
 

This is somewhat a curiosity but very annoying nonetheless. I started using Kopete, but most of my friends use windose + trillian. Their messages come to me empty...unless they put an emoticon. Text after emoticon comes through. So: "I can :) see you now" only "see you now" would come through.

Weird.

Nobody knows how to fix this? Or is this just a dumb question that warrants no response?