how can i use chinese nick in this ircd?

Castalia · Post by **Castalia** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 6:28 am

is chinese nick avi.?it told me that "Erroneous Nickname: Illegal characters".who can help me pls?

Dukat · Post by **Dukat** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 9:09 am

Please tell us - are you using the Windows or Linux Version?

IF you are using the Linux version, you have to edit "config.h" and recompile. (Same for the Windows Version, if you dare to compile it yourself...

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w00t · Post by **w00t** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 3:07 am

lol, nothing wrong with compiling on windows!

Nugget · Post by **Nugget** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:52 pm

How does this work out in practice? There seems to be no consistency for non-ascii character support in irc clients, and I'm sure that support for non-ascii nicks is even more brittle than the mess we see with channel traffic.

I'd love to be able to reliably use utf-8 on irc, but it's just too slapdash from the client perspective. xchat sends crap that mirc pukes on and mirc sends crap that irsii pukes on and it all hinges on a rube goldberg chain of dependencies from the terminal to the shell to the os and any one link in the chain can break it all.

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:21 pm

Yes.

Pity, but ah well.
(well said nugget)

codemastr · Post by **codemastr** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:33 am

I'd love to be able to reliably use utf-8 on irc, but it's just too slapdash from the client perspective. xchat sends crap that mirc pukes on and mirc sends crap that irsii pukes on and it all hinges on a rube goldberg chain of dependencies from the terminal to the shell to the os and any one link in the chain can break it all.

And now you know why these options are disabled by default

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:41 am

At least there are options...