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[gaim-migrate @ 7182] Nathan Poznick writes: "I was checking over the translation changes that Bjoern submitted +for my Yahoo/MSN get user info patch, and I found that several strings +were improperly marked to be translated. For instance, consider the line: info_extract_field(stripped, url_text, "My Email", 5, "\n", 0, _("Private"), _("Email"), 0, NULL); In this case, "Private" should not be translated, since that function argument is used in the parsing, not in the displaying. There were instances of this in yahoo.c, and 6 instances in msn.c. The attached patches simply remove the _() from around those strings. I know 0.68 is supposed to be released tomorrow, so I hope these small changes can make it in - otherwise, it will mean that fetching an english profile will not work as designed, if gaim is running under a different locale." (11:20:50) faceprint: anyone look at the too-many-translated-strings thing on gaim-devel? (11:21:12) LSchiere: that's what i was just about to ask about (11:21:48) faceprint: looks kosher to me (11:21:51) LSchiere: yeah (11:23:30) SeanEgan: agreed 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.

- Open binary files when reading or writing with 'b' mode.

  e.g: fopen("somefile", "wb");

  Not doing so will open files in windows using defaut translation mode. 
  i.e. newline -> <CR><LF>

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");

- When writing out paths to .gaimrc, use wgaim_escape_dirsep. This is necessary
  because the Windows dir separator '\' is being used to escape characters, when
  paths are read in from the .gaimrc file.

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)