I think it's time the national servers follow the international servers then. There's no good reason to use code pages when unicode has been around for so long and is so widely used these days. From all the posts I've seen from Khaled on this issue, I doubt you'll see code page support in mIRC 7.x. If your server(s) can't use unicode/utf-8, then it looks like you'll have to stick to 6.35. Keep in mind that most of what mIRC 7.x currently has to offer isn't going to help you anyhow if you're not using unicode.