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[gaim-migrate @ 7154] I thought about the problem with the yahoo profile languages. I haven't yet a solution, which solves the whole problem. But I think, I have a good idea, how to deal with non-English profiles in the meantime before this solution comes. non-English profiles are empty white pages in the moment (without my patch). The original patch already shows a link and a message for adult profiles. My patch makes the same for non-English languages. How it works: - at first it checks, if the page is in English (it looks for the words "Last Updated:", I think this is good, because every English profile has these words) - if the page is not in English, it finds the profile name in the title (which is always English) - it prints a message and a link which points to the profile page of the user Luke, can you please look at the patch and especially to my comments and messages. Please correct my English, if something doesn't sound good. I think, the patch can be included in gaim-0.68. It should not have any side effects." at very least it has fewwer side effects. 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)