diff -r 9a6551eba09c -r c593fc9f5438 libpurple/plugins/perl/perl-common.c
--- a/libpurple/plugins/perl/perl-common.c	Thu Mar 23 21:01:15 2017 +0300
+++ b/libpurple/plugins/perl/perl-common.c	Fri Mar 24 02:23:46 2017 +0300
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
 
 	/* Check for changed arguments */
 	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
-		if (args[i] && strcmp(args[i], SvPVX(sv_args[i]))) {
+		if (args[i] && !purple_strequal(args[i], SvPVX(sv_args[i]))) {
 			/*
 			 * Shizzel.  So the perl script changed one of the parameters,
 			 * and we want this change to affect the original parameters.