That is entirely up to the ircd and network and not mIRC. mIRC cannot force networks to allow or disallow different naming schemes. Even websites are often "duplicated" by slightly changing a common address and using it to get hits on a completely different site. The channel (or site) owner may not appreciate it, but there is little that can be done other than to register those channels (or hosts) yourself and redirect people to the main location. mIRC's job isn't to police channel names. As it is, you can already have something like #mïRC or even m1RC. Whether the difference is capitalization or different accents on the characters or numbers used for some characters, it's possible to "duplicate" a channel. Capitalization isn't really some special thing that allows people to do that. It's just the one way where someone could accidentally do it.
A-Z and a-z are already treated as the same on both websites and channels. That isn't something mIRC manages, but is done on the ircd/network side. It's also up to them to choose whether or not to treat unicode characters case-insensitively (where capital and lowercase are treated the same) in channel names. If you want to try and push that issue so it gets changed, I'd suggest bringing this up to the various ircd developers.
Last edited by Riamus2; 20/01/11 02:06 PM.
