And no, the reason $utfencode differs is because you're attempting to $utfencode already encoded data; all data in mIRC has already been encoded in UTF-8, so calling $utfencode will double-encode the data. It would be equivalent to the following code in 6.35:
//echo -a $utfencode($utfencode(A))
You should never use $utf* functions in 7.x, full stop.
You are absolutly wrong. If i would encode it twice the result would be the same all the time, so i would just "encode" chr 194 all the time and this should end up in char 195 and 130 for all of them. All characters (128-159) start with the char 194 and then increase from 128 to 159 in unicode as you can see on the screenshot in my post above. I'm not saying that this is wrong, i'm just saying that mIRC should be compatible as it was in all versions before this mess started.
