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[gaim-migrate @ 13136] " I was playing with some new versions of gettext and friends at debconf, and found some horrific bugs in the .po files. Here's the general summary of the problems and their fixes: * no.po should be called nb.po - renamed * a Makevars is required for gettext 0.14.4 - added * am.po was missing a plural form - added * da.po had some mismatched C format types - marked as fuzzy * ka.po had "nplurals=INTEGER; plural=EXPRESSION;" instead of the actual plural form - turns out nplural is 1, so deleted the duplicate identical 2nd strings * mk.po had the same problem, added the plural form but nplural is 3 and the translations in the file only have 2 entries, so I marked them as fuzzy * pl.po - fixed mismatched C format type * ru.po - basically the same as mk.po. had a crap plural form. added it and marked the wrongly-numbered plurals as fuzzy * sq.po - added plural form, but file looks correct otherwise (nplurals=2) * tr.po - tweaks to the header, and nplurals=1 so set this and deleted pointless duplicate second forms You need to move no.po to nb.po - it would be silly to include that in the patch obviously. Please apply to HEAD ASAP before it stops applying (obviously if anyone changes the po files the patch will break very easily) but also please leave this item open until me or someone else has looked for and corrected the same issues in oldstable. Regards, Rob" I've been ignoring translations in HEAD as its really rather pointless for now. I plan to continue doing so. but as I was less than clear talking to robot101, i didn't think it was fair to penalize him. 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)