Index: kses.php
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--- kses.php	(revision 3773)
+++ kses.php	(working copy)
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 		//	'ul' => array(),
 	);
 }
-function wp_kses($string, $allowed_html, $allowed_protocols = array ('http', 'https', 'ftp', 'news', 'nntp', 'telnet', 'feed', 'gopher', 'mailto'))
+function wp_kses($string, $allowed_html, $allowed_protocols = array ('http', 'https', 'ftp', 'news', 'nntp', 'telnet', 'feed', 'gopher', 'mailto', 'irc'))
 	###############################################################################
 		# This function makes sure that only the allowed HTML element names, attribute
 		# names and attribute values plus only sane HTML entities will occur in