diff -r 5c736d337ee0 -r 6962e96ddd38 libpurple/protocols/irc/irc.c
--- a/libpurple/protocols/irc/irc.c	Fri Jul 25 16:33:24 2008 +0000
+++ b/libpurple/protocols/irc/irc.c	Sun Jul 27 13:29:26 2008 +0000
@@ -989,6 +989,9 @@
 	option = purple_account_option_string_new(_("Encodings"), "encoding", IRC_DEFAULT_CHARSET);
 	prpl_info.protocol_options = g_list_append(prpl_info.protocol_options, option);
 
+	option = purple_account_option_bool_new(_("Auto-detect incoming UTF-8"), "autodetect_utf8", IRC_DEFAULT_AUTODETECT);
+	prpl_info.protocol_options = g_list_append(prpl_info.protocol_options, option);
+
 	option = purple_account_option_string_new(_("Username"), "username", "");
 	prpl_info.protocol_options = g_list_append(prpl_info.protocol_options, option);