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[gaim-migrate @ 15922] Way more changes that I initially thought I was going to make. I apologize for the commit message spam. These changes bring a lot of consistency to our capitalization and punctuation, especially of words like "e-mail". For reference, I've used these rules (after discussing in #gaim): e-mail, a case of two words joined: "e-mail" - in the middle of a sentence caps context "E-mail" - start of text in a sentence caps context "E-Mail" - in a header (title) caps context re-enable, a single word, would be: "re-enable", "Re-enable", and "Re-enable" (respectively) The reason this changeset exploded is that, as I went through and verified these changes, I realized we were using improper capitalization (e.g. header instead of sentence) in a number of dialogs. I fixed a number of these cases before, and this corrects another pile. This looks like I've made a LOT of work for the translators, but the impact is significantly mitigated by three factors: 1) Many of these changes use strings that already exist, or change one string in many places. 2) I've used sed to correct the .po files where possible. 3) The actual changes are extremely trivial. 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");

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)