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#126235 26/07/05 10:27 PM
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With the new clients (as XChat) witch became popular we can see a lot of them that uses UTF-8 encoding.

Does mIRC will support it ?

#126236 26/07/05 10:36 PM
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This has been suggested many times before, use the Search, use +utf as keyword, set forum to "Feature Suggestions", and expand to 5 years.


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Short answer; Khaled's already said it's on his todo-list.

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This has been suggested many times before, use the Search, use +utf as keyword, set forum to "Feature Suggestions", and expand to 5 years.


This is the only thread I found :tongue:
Well, since I use Linux I use X-Chat and got angry that noone was able to read the german Umlauts I have to use frequently (ö ä ü ß). HTML-Code: ü ß etc., so you know which chars I mean.

Therefore I recommend to set UTF-8 as the standard charset for mIRC! Don't lean agains International standards! UTF-8 is currently standardized as RFC 3629 (UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646). RTC means "Request for comments".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

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yes.. i bet you khaled already knows what an rfc is, considering IRC is based off one as well.

anyway
rounin said it's on the list.


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Yes. Actually, in one of the earliest UTF-8 threads that I can remember, Khaled replied that it was on his todo list or something along those lines. A few versions have been released since then, but it is a pretty major change - implementing Unicode support for the entire application, plus at least one or two encoding conversions, so I guess patience is the key word here. smile It's great to see so many people take an interest, though.

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Is there a hack or something else so I can use UTF-8 or UTF-7 with the recent version?


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Yes, and you can find it on Google, but it only converts to and from the current codepage, so it doesn't actually give you Unicode functionality.

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It's great to see so many people take an interest, though.


Well... first of all I want to make new standards come available, since a lot of good ideas didn't make it (like Video2000 or SVHS-Tape lost against VHS-Tape).
On the other hand my friends always complain about the umlauts i write when using Linux - they just can't see them. That's it...


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#126245 05/08/05 01:51 AM
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X-Chat can use the ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15 and CP1252 encodings though, in case your only problem is communicating with your friends.


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