some other streamhosts when already
established connection has failed

is raised during data receiving

when pollend event is raised

ask locale module to do the job of detecting LANG; this now works in Windows. thanks Stian for testing

if avatar is too big, scale it using notification size (by default to 48x48) and hope that now filesize is small enough. aka we are not Gimp

force printing utf8 [afterall it is what i18n will return] else we were tb on could not decode using ascii

Asterix, this method is actually new (i.e., was only in gc before),
but now it is needed (see #1495).  Also, what I was not expecting
was the refresh of self.contact in this same function.  This is
required since the contact goes stale when we go offline.
Not sure if that is a bug or not.

TODO: create 48x48 online and offline pngs for all jabber iconsets