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[gaim-migrate @ 9770] "Luke, if you get a chance, could you commit this? It should improve the HTML escaping situation between Gaim and other AIM and ICQ clients. I haven't actually applied it locally or tested it, but it looks ok to me. I would do it myself, but there are other changes in my oscar.c that aren't ready to commit, and I want to go to sleep so I can wake up tomorrow... I'll probably be out of town climbing until Sunday night... "--Mark Doliner "Below is an email I nearly sent you, before deciding to test & document the failure cases I knew of. http://www.nosnilmot.com/gaim/oscar-html.txt shows how current CVS behaves sending the string "<foo>" between GaimICQ/GaimAIM/ICQLite/WinAIM in various combinations After that testing I couldn't help trying to fix it :) The attached patch, from my testing, resolves all those marked with "XX" so that what is received matches what the user sent. The code might not be the most efficient and may contain redundant bits but I've had enough of this for now, 2 Windows crashes which caused VMWare to be weird and half break my keyboard and require restarting X. The patch might want a bit more testing, especially with iChat (I'm unable to test with that). Maybe committing it to CVS might get it some more testing though ;-)" --Stu Tomlinson 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)