Forums mIRC Help Forbidden Nick or what?

I have been going crazy trying to get a nick to work on EFNET. My main nickname is Mulsiphix. I want my alternate to be Mulsiphix- or Mulsiphix2 or something along those lines. However, no matter what I put after Mulsiphix it says that the name Mulsiphix is in use. Is there some sort of nick rule that this particular name violates or is it just cursed?

Every server/network has a character limit of how many characters may be included in a nickname. The IRC RFC says that nicknames should have 9 characters, and EFnet is true to that (other networks are often more lenient). So, when you type /nick Mulsiphix- you are effectively typing /nick Mulsiphix, because the - is ignored.

Regards,

Wow I had no idea. Thank you very much

On a side note, what characters are actually allowed? I've tried to use nicks in both UTF-7 and UTF-8, but there's always some illegal character contained within them.

I don't think the IRCd sets what characters can be used, and I haven't sifted through RFC 1459 to see if it's detailed there. I know letterz A-Z, 1-9 and the following can be used though (this is purely from memory, quite possibly missed some): _ - ^ |

Characters such as @ + ! * & and % can be used for 'status' in nicknames. I would assume @/+ are 'reserved' for op/voice use, as they were the original status symbols.

Perhaps someone has a more technical answer though

Regards,

Cheers

quickly went thru the keyboard and found that the following can't be used:

¬ : ; ' ~ , < > . ? / (but \ can be ) ! " £ $ ^ & * ( ) = @ + %

Tested on unreal 3.2. Might have missed some and unsure about characters such as ú cuz i just closed the ircd as i remembered about them and i'm too lazy to open it up again :tongue:

It might be worth noting those listed characters are only limited because of the IRCd not by mIRC.

The only characters mIRC doesnt "allow" are; : and ! i.e.

* Your nick is now ¬
* Your nick is now ;
* Your nick is now '
* Your nick is now <
* Your nick is now >
* Your nick is now ~
* Your nick is now /
* Your nick is now \
* Your nick is now "
* Your nick is now £
* Your nick is now $
* Your nick is now ^
* Your nick is now &
* Your nick is now *
* Your nick is now (
* Your nick is now )
* Your nick is now =
* Your nick is now @
* Your nick is now +
* Your nick is now %

Are the working ones, however, the non-working are:

: returns: * Your nick is now

Which is perfectly understandable since the ':' is a delimiter originally.

! returns: * Your nick is now !

However cant seem to change it back, which is either a result of the mIRC parser, or how the IRCd is coded.

The following was done on a very basic C++ IRCd.

Eamonn.