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[gaim-migrate @ 7095] Bjoern Voigt writes: "As far as I can see, you commited a patch, which adds support for "Get User Info" on Yahoo and MSN. It's not my small Yahoo Get Info patch, it's the bigger one, which parses Yahoo and MSN profile pages. I prepared a patch for it, which adds i18n macros to this patch. Please commit the attached patch i18n21.patch. The patch works fine for Yahoo contacts with English language preference. Unfortunately the patch doesn't work with contacts with other language preferences. The problem is, that in Yahoo every user can set up a language for his/her profile. So http://profiles.yahoo.com/CONTACT can deliver English, German, French, ... pages, depending on CONTACT's preference. The yahoo_get_info() functions doesn't handle this and it's not easy to handle this. I have some ideas, how to fix this issue. I like to discuss this with the author of the patch or in gaim-devel." 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)