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how can i use chinese nick in this ircd?
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 6:28 am
by Castalia
is chinese nick avi.?it told me that "Erroneous Nickname: Illegal characters".who can help me pls?
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 9:09 am
by Dukat
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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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 3:07 am
by w00t
lol, nothing wrong with compiling on windows!
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:52 pm
by Nugget
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.
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:21 pm
by w00t
Yes.
Pity, but ah well.
(well said nugget)
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:33 am
by codemastr
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
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:41 am
by w00t
At least there are options...