UTF-8 as default encoding - 11/02/03 05:14 PM
おっす！
There's really one problem with IRC in non-englishspeaking countries, and that's the lack of an encoding that will support multiple languages.
In my client, X-chat, I can enter Japanese characters (日本語), a little Norwegian (æøå) and anything else I might feel like in UTF-8 and have it converted to a suitable encoding like SJIS, iso-8859-1 etc.
The problem is only UTF-8 supports all of these languages at the same time.
mIRC uses iso-8859-1 as its default encoding.
Therefore I suggest that mIRC starts converting all input, no matter what encoding, to UTF-8 in the future to effectively establish UTF-8 as the standard encoding on IRC. Per default. People should have a choice, obviously.
Have people tried using UTF-8 with mIRC here before? I love being able to use multiple languages on one server.
There's really one problem with IRC in non-englishspeaking countries, and that's the lack of an encoding that will support multiple languages.
In my client, X-chat, I can enter Japanese characters (日本語), a little Norwegian (æøå) and anything else I might feel like in UTF-8 and have it converted to a suitable encoding like SJIS, iso-8859-1 etc.
The problem is only UTF-8 supports all of these languages at the same time.
mIRC uses iso-8859-1 as its default encoding.
Therefore I suggest that mIRC starts converting all input, no matter what encoding, to UTF-8 in the future to effectively establish UTF-8 as the standard encoding on IRC. Per default. People should have a choice, obviously.
Have people tried using UTF-8 with mIRC here before? I love being able to use multiple languages on one server.