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Stop using custom encodings (and LATIN-1, for that matter) for sending OSCAR messages (ICBM, chat, Direct IM). Now, we use ASCII if a message contains ASCII characters only, and UTF-16 in all other cases. That fixes #10833 (offline messages now will be sent as UTF-16) and also a whole bunch of potential problems we can get with charset 0x3. Different clients tend to interpret this charset differently; for instance, the official client always interprets it as LATIN-1, while alternative clients may decode it as some other user-specified 8-bit encoding. On the other hand, ASCII messages (charset 0x0) and UTF-16 messages (charset 0x2) are understood uniformly by all clients. I also cleaned-up the code a little (got rid of code paths that were never executed, flags that were always set, unused struct members, etc.)

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.