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When GNU Libidn is available, use it for XMPP stringprep operations. I made configure fail if libidn is unavailable and force_deps is set because glib's UTF-8 strdown and casefold operations fail one of the tests I've updated (based on running the tests with libidn). Running without libidn will still work in almost every case because people use all-ASCII JabberIDs and I had to search a fair amount to find characters for which GLib failed. This shouldn't have a performance impact on top of Mark's optimizations for all-ASCII JIDs.

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.