diff -r 9a6551eba09c -r c593fc9f5438 pidgin/gtkstatusbox.c
--- a/pidgin/gtkstatusbox.c	Thu Mar 23 21:01:15 2017 +0300
+++ b/pidgin/gtkstatusbox.c	Fri Mar 24 02:23:46 2017 +0300
@@ -1030,8 +1030,8 @@
 			PurpleStatusType *st1 = s1->data, *st2 = s2->data;
 			/* TODO: Are these enough to consider the statuses identical? */
 			if (purple_status_type_get_primitive(st1) != purple_status_type_get_primitive(st2)
-				|| strcmp(purple_status_type_get_id(st1), purple_status_type_get_id(st2))
-				|| strcmp(purple_status_type_get_name(st1), purple_status_type_get_name(st2))) {
+				|| !purple_strequal(purple_status_type_get_id(st1), purple_status_type_get_id(st2))
+				|| !purple_strequal(purple_status_type_get_name(st1), purple_status_type_get_name(st2))) {
 				acct1 = NULL;
 				break;
 			}