Pidgin on MacOSX

Hi again,

This need to be fixed on the GTK side, so there is not much I can do about
it.

Though, I tried to work around this a bit. Look into the application
bundle at the file Contents/Resources/conf/gtkrc of the new 2.5.8 release
(I will publish in an hour or so). You can add custom user bindings there.
You can also save this gtkrc in your user-directory (I think as ~/.gtkrc or
something like that) so you don't need to change the one in the application
bundle. I already added two custom bindings there, so you can easily add
further ones.

I have already noticed that some special characters cannot be entered in
Pidgin (whereby # works for me, but I have also a German layout).

As a workaround (annoying though), you could enter the text somewhere else
and use copy&paste. In your case, you could add your often used channels to
the buddy list and then you probably don't need the # anymore that often.

But of course, that's no real solution. I guess this is a GTK+ problem but
I am not sure. In that case we would have to wait for a GTK+ update.

Perhaps you can also try some different GTK keyboard layout settings.
There is a file inside the application bundle, I think under
Resources/etc/gtk named gtkrc or something like that, where you can set
some default GTK settings, like GTK theme and keyboard layout. You could
try a bit with some other settings.