diff --git a/telegram-adium/TelegramAccount.m b/telegram-adium/TelegramAccount.m
index bf507d9..e9dbc4c 100644
--- a/telegram-adium/TelegramAccount.m
+++ b/telegram-adium/TelegramAccount.m
@@ -103,19 +103,6 @@
                                intValue]);
 }
 
-/**!
- * @brief Returns the name passed to new_purple_buddy, when adding a new contact
- *
- * This function is called when creating a new contact from the purple GUI.
- */
-- (NSString *)_UIDForAddingObject:(AIListContact *)object
-{
-  // The contact UID in Adium was encoded with decomposoed unicode codepoints (see http://unicode.org/reports/tr15/).
-  // Since libtgl and libpurple (and apparently the rest of the world) encode with composed code points, the name
-  // needs to be converted to the composed format to prevent inequality in binary string comparison.
-  return [object.UID precomposedStringWithCanonicalMapping];
-}
-
 #pragma mark Action Menu
 -(NSMenu*)actionMenuForChat:(AIChat*)chat
 {
diff --git a/tgp-blist.c b/tgp-blist.c
index 27e8572..ee9770a 100644
--- a/tgp-blist.c
+++ b/tgp-blist.c
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ const char *tgp_blist_lookup_purple_name (struct tgl_state *TLS, tgl_peer_id_t i
 }
 
 void tgp_blist_lookup_add (struct tgl_state *TLS, tgl_peer_id_t id, const char *purple_name) {
+  
+  // to avoid issues with differences in string normalization, always store in composed form this helps to avoid
+  // issues with clients like Adium, that will store strings in decomposed format by default
+  const char *name = g_utf8_normalize (purple_name, -1, G_NORMALIZE_DEFAULT_COMPOSE);
 
   g_hash_table_replace (tls_get_data (TLS)->id_to_purple_name, GINT_TO_POINTER(tgl_get_peer_id (id)),
       g_strdup (name));
@@ -53,7 +57,8 @@ void tgp_blist_lookup_add (struct tgl_state *TLS, tgl_peer_id_t id, const char *
 }
 
 static tgl_peer_id_t *tgp_blist_lookup_get_id (struct tgl_state *TLS, const char *purple_name) {
-  return g_hash_table_lookup (tls_get_data (TLS)->purple_name_to_id, purple_name);
+  return g_hash_table_lookup (tls_get_data (TLS)->purple_name_to_id,
+      g_utf8_normalize (purple_name, -1, G_NORMALIZE_DEFAULT_COMPOSE));
 }
 
 tgl_peer_t *tgp_blist_lookup_peer_get (struct tgl_state *TLS, const char *purple_name) {