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The hostname used for a bonjour account should always be the current machine name. This fixes our behavior so the previous statement is always the case. Unfortunately, this means that if the hostname was previously not the current machine name, the bonjour jid ends up looking like "username\40otherhost@hostname". Fixes #12674

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.