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If a chatroom user's nickname contains MXit markup characters, they are escaped by the chatroom service before being sent. When the client extracts the nickname field we need to perform un-escaping (ie, "\X" -> "X" ) to restore the original nickname.

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.