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[gaim-migrate @ 6809] Robot101 is a fancy bastard. Regarding my fix for "Make Gaim not crash when you unload the system tray icon when there are messages queued," he writes: The correct fix for this is to use &handle as the function data, I have a function that removes callbacks with that data pointer that gets called at unload. Fancy. In other news, we now send a BR tag instead of \n for newlines for AIM. And for ICQ we send CR/LF instead of \n. This is more correct, and should make messages with new lines sent from Gaim to Miranda show up correctly for Miranda users. ICQ Lite sends CR/LF to Gaim for newlines, but I would rather use a BR tag, and it seems to work with no problems. In still other news, de purk und beans mit sauerkrauten. In yet still other news, I don't have anything else to add. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

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