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replace most calls to strerror with calls to g_strerror. strerror will return a locale-specific string in the locale-specific encoding, which isn't guaranteed to be UTF-8. g_strerror will always return a UTF-8 string. I left gg and zephyr untouched, since gg doesn't include glib headers yet, and zephyr does something weird with a #define for strerror. Someone more familliar with those should take a look. And the win32 guys should check and see if I screwed something up, since they had strerror #defined to something else. This should fix #2247 (and maybe some mystery crashes)

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.