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I'm really not sure why Khaled went with not supporting the # prefix in irc:// urls. I know that Mozilla's IRC client listens to <a href="irc://server/#channel" target="_blank">irc://server/#channel</a>, but mIRC doesn't seem to even receive it (as if IE strips it off?).


That's actually noted in the IETF draft of the irc: URL scheme... try encoding pound sign (%23).