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[gaim-migrate @ 8369] this didn't cause me any problems yesterday, and it compiles, and bug fixing is a good thing. "Some month ago I introduced translatable texts for "gaim --help" and "gaim-remote --help". Unfortunately the output of the translated text is often unreadable. The problem is, that Gaim's *.po files have the UTF-8 locale (because this is the default charset for GTK+ 2.0). But the users may have configured other locales. For instance my SuSE Linux 9.0 system is configured with LANG=de_DE@euro. "euro" is ISO-8859-1 (Western character set, 8 Bit, with the Euro currency symbol). Lots of UTF-8 characters are unreadable if they are displayed in a 8 Bit charset without conversion. Only the 7 Bit chars are displayed right. There are two possible solutions: 1) Make the console texts untranslatable. This isn't very clever. 2) Convert the texts from UTF-8 to user's locale. I choose the second solution. The conversion cannot be made during the translation, because gettext does not allow a mix of different character sets in one po-file. My patch converts the console strings from UTF-8 to users locale. Normally this works right, because most users have a locale which is compatible with their language. The case where a user uses a language (for instance German: LANG=de_DE) with an incompatible character set (for instance the 7Bit charset LC_CTYPE=C) is also handled. The user then sees a warning and the original UTF-8 message. At first I tried to make a new UTF-8 function in src/util.c. But the function is needed 5 times in src/gaim-remote.c and 2 times in src/main.c. gaim-remote is not linked against util.o. Also there are a lot of dependencies from util.o to other files, so I will introduce a lot of trouble to link gaim-remote against util.o. So I only wrote a function in src/gaim-remote.c and used the UTF-8 conversion inline in src/main.c." --Bjoern Voigt committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

gaim: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clone that's Good For The Soul! 

CREDITS
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Authors:

Rob Flynn    	  <IM: RobFlynn>		[e-mail]
Syd Logan
Jim Duchek        <IM: zilding>			[e-mail]
Eric Warmenhoven                    		[e-mail]
Mark Spencer      <IM: markster97>		[e-mail]
Sean Egan	  <IM: SeanEgn>			[e-mail]

Other Contributors:

Adam Fritzler (mid)
	Wrote libfaim, fixed the proxy code, added the stuff to let
	Oscar go through a proxy, and wrote the beginnings of the
	Jabber plugin..

Much thanks to Evan Martin <[e-mail]> for writing 
GtkSpell <http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net> responsible for the 
"Highlight misspelled words" feature and for gtk-nativewin
<http://bunny.darktech.org/cvs/gtk-nativewin/> the default GTK+-2.0
engine used in our win32 port.

** LOGO DESIGNED BY: Naru Sundar **

Peter Teichiman <[e-mail]>
Larry Ewing 
Jeramey A. Crawford
	Thanks to these boys.  Peter and Larry managed to stomp
	out a large list of Mem Leaks.  Jeramey found the remaining
	onees and pointed me to those.  Props to the boys at 
	Helix Code.  Thanks guys.

Nathan Walp
	A healthy amount of patches for the Jabber plugin
Neil Sanchala
	Wrote most of the Zephyr plugin
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
	Wrote the Gadu-Gadu plugin
	
David Prater    <IM: dRaven43>          [e-mail]   
	Log and Colour Button Images
Sébastien Carpe <IM: Seb Carpe>
	Base HTTP Proxy Support
Ari Pollak      <IM: Ari Pollak>	compwiz.dhs.org
	Resize conversation window patch   
Decklin Foster
	Many GUI improvements, other nifty additions and fixes
David <IM: CrazyDavy>
	The neato-bigger text box
S D Erle
	Writing a cool perl script to translate WinAIM lists to gaim
BMiller
	A good collection of stuff. %n for away messages, import winaim
	lists, pic/text/pic+text for buttons, among others
Lance Rocker
	Improved HTML formatting in logs, plus lots of debugging on *BSD.

ergofobe:
	GNOME Url handler patch

Justin M. Ward <[e-mail]>:
	Alphabetical Away Messages patch

G. Sumner Hayes <IM: SumnerFool> Security Patches
Brian Ryner for a little make file patch :)
Ryan C. Gordon - I still think you look like Silent Bob.
Elliot Tobin <[e-mail]>

Many, many thanks to Luke Schierer who logs many hours in #gaim (as LSchiere)
providing technical support to users and testing patches for developers.

Similar thanks to Ka-Hing Cheung for also committing tons of time offering
support and submitting patches

A big thanks to the X-Chat developers, who were kind enough to
license X-Chat under the GPL so that I could learn to be as cool
as them. -EW

Thanks to Jeroen van der Vegt for the initial smiley plugin and images.

And tons of thanks to all our users and testers!