Forums Bug Reports mIRC Space breaking

if you join a channel with a space in it,
on mIRC it will return:

Jeremy on @#charybdis #staticbox @#staticbox #systeminplace #charybdis #atheme

where on irssi it will properly return:

21:39:23 [OSCN] -!- channels : @#charybdis^\ #staticbox @#staticbox^\^\ #systeminplace #charybdis #atheme

What network is this?

Is it a literal space (ASCII 32)?

A space can't be in channel names according to the IRC RFC, it's a delimiter.



irssi might support it for some weird reason, but it doesn't need to be supported because no compliant IRC server should allow it.

I thought spaces can be used for IRC, they are replaced with \b just as , is \c and \ is \\

That's usually on IRCX networks (which also sometimes use %# as a channel prefix); the IRC protocol says nothing about using \b, \c or \\.

Not in channel names or nicks, no. Any network that allows it is not following the standard that every other network follows and therefore does not need to be supported by clients.

Ahh yeah you're right - forgot about that. I did think this after I had posted but then couldn't find the IRCX draft as I'm at work it's quite hard!