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[gaim-migrate @ 4733] (20:45:09) Trogdor: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~eblanton/gaim/gaim-cvs-oscar-ssi-conv.diff (20:45:12) Trogdor: commit please (20:45:22) LSchiere: commit log? (20:45:48) Trogdor: Adds best-effort charset conversion to Oscar SSI aliases and group names. (20:45:55) Trogdor: oh (20:46:19) Trogdor: Also adds a gaim global function gaim_try_conv_to_utf8 () for attempting several logical encodings on a given string. (20:46:43) Trogdor: (which replaces the aptly named whatever_to_utf8) 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.

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");

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)