view PLUGIN_HOWTO @ 24343:9e0458c98b4c

This was originally a patch from Brian Geppert that corrected the 'silently truncates messages at 800 characters' bug in yahoo. I changed the patch to reflect the reality I saw, which is that the maximum message length is 946 bytes, but only 800 characters. It's possible to fall between 800 and 946 bytes but not exceed 800 characters by using multibyte characters.

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.