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[gaim-migrate @ 9305] " In the irc tooltip, there's a line "Channel:". In 0.75, this seems to have been merged with the "_Channel:" line. In English, this works because underscores in the tooltip are removed before being displayed. However, in Chinese and Japanese, the translation of "_Channel:" looks like "Channel (_C):" and this translated text does not make any sense in the tooltip. The tooltip thus should not use the "_Channel:" string. Otherwise the tooltip output would look very strange in certain locales (at least in Chinese and Japanese)." --Ambrose C. LI who continues: "This second patch should be better. It correctly undoes the space character typically present before the left parenthesis, and added some checks so that it should not corrupt multibyte utf-8 characters. However, this has not been tested a lot. UTF8 handling is also not an area I am familiar with. I don't know whether the C library has existing functions to handle the utf8 things." i'm assuming we have time to test this before 0.77 committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
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General
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- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths

- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf

- Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME")

- Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
  be included.

- Open binary files when reading or writing with 'b' mode.

  e.g: fopen("somefile", "wb");

  Not doing so will open files in windows using defaut translation mode. 
  i.e. newline -> <CR><LF>

Paths
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- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions.
  Doing the following will therefore break the windows build:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png");

  it should be:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png");

- When writing out paths to .gaimrc, use wgaim_escape_dirsep. This is necessary
  because the Windows dir separator '\' is being used to escape characters, when
  paths are read in from the .gaimrc file.

PLUGINS & PROTOS
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- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the
  scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init)

- G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your
  dynamic library. (E.G. connections)

  (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)