Hello,
wouldn't be a good idea to switch the client's default to UTF-8 ? That way, people would mostly use that universal charset and there would be less :
1/ Trolls
2/ Kicks for stupid reasons
In opposition, there would be more :
1/ Universality
2/ Readability
in all channels. Some users (Israeli and Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russia... people) are on both english and local language rooms, sometimes on multi-specialcharset rooms. UTF-8 by default would ease their life and would make IRC better.
Joachim D. (joachim foo desoutter bar org)