Not too sure about the 'bug' more than the implementation aspect, but there is a funky thing that goes on when attempting to input japanese in a channel that has mode +c, with jis/sjis conversion checked.

ie: if a channel is set to +c, and you have jis/sjis conv checked, and you type japanese, you get a
You cannot use colors on this channel. Not sent: <msg>

but, if if you uncheck the jis/sjis conv box, and attempt to send the message again, it works.

From this, it would seem that JIS encoding is merely incompatible, and that JIS/SJIS conversion should convert any JIS text to SJIS for transmittal instead of vice-versa (and as a bonus, it would mean, that any text using jis encoding would be legible to people using windows with japanese font/regionality support, as it would be converted to SJIS, a native windows encoding.)

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My twelve cents (adjusted for inflation).