I think you are confused about the concept IRC vs an IRC Client.

If mIRC supports translation of textual smilies to graphical ones, then this doesn't affect IRC in any way.

The text is already there, it's just mIRC that translates it locally on the client side to a graphical representation. Smilies are widely used when chatting on IRC, whether they are seen locally as an actualy smiley or not doesn't make any difference to the IRC server sending the smiley, or you who has disabled the option.

Let me give you a stupid example:

on ^*:TEXT:*:#: haltdef | echo 4 # $+(<,$nick,>) $1-

This will colour any incoming text on a channel to red. For the IRC server this does not make any difference, and for the other chatters it doesn't either, since this script is local, as in it only colours the text on the screen of the person who has the script installed. It doesn't send out colors to the server, and you don't see the colors either. Just the client, which is what we are talking about.

Last edited by FiberOPtics; 24/02/05 12:12 AM.

Gone.