Forums Feature Suggestions Suggestion about Multilingual support

well, here's my suggestion
i personally use 3 languages
English, Hebrew, and Russian
english and russian work perfectly fine for me
i can both type and read these in mirc
BUT, when it comes to hebrew, in order for me to see it
i have to switch the font of the channel/query window to Arial
and change its encoding to hebrew - only then i can read hebrew in the channels, and yet i cannot write. i get gibberish.
i hope you can help me solve my problem in the next mirc version

also i'd like to comment on the fact that up until either mirc6+ or 5.9, all 3 languages used to work for me. for both reading/writing (of course it stil required font switching, but thats fine with me i guess)

The solution is quite simply to switch the default encoding to UTF-8, which supports among other languages English, Hebrew and Russian.

This has been suggested in numerous threads (By me especially), and is said to be on Khaled's todo-list, but I haven't heard of any progress yet.

where do i switch to that UTF-8 thing?

That's unfortunately not possible right now. mIRC has to utilize some built-in UTF-8 support in Windows 2000 and XP before it can correctly handle UTF-8.

I'm sure though, that the mIRC developers will note that another individual is interested in this feature. This must be the 4th or 5th thread about encoding problems or UTF-8 just in the last few months.