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We need to escape any special "html" characters in a status message, otherwise the buddy tooltip appears empty and the buddy list window acts strange. (Similar issue to Ticket #10304)

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.