I'm not sure exactly in which category I should post this.

A friend has been having problems with dcc chat & send,
when he tries to initiate a dcc chat with me, I get ..

DCC Chat from <nick> rejected (invalid parameters)

Using debug, this is what I saw ..
<- :nick!user@host NOTICE <my nick> : DCC Chat (<his ip>)
<- ::nick!user@host PRIVMSG <my nick> :
DCC CHAT chat |¢NRhi


From anyone else, including myself, I get this ..
<- :nick!user@host NOTICE <my nick> : DCC Chat (<ip>)
<- ::nick!user@host PRIVMSG <my nick> :
DCC CHAT chat <long ip> <port>


What would change <long ip> <port> into |¢NRhi ?
I was thinking his router or something was changing it, so I had him try this ..
/raw privmsg <my nick> :
DCC CHAT chat <long ip> <port>


He said ..
<his nick> i see this
<his nick> -> Server: privmsg <my nick> :
DCC CHAT chat |¢NRhi


So I thought, well it's changing before it even gets sent so
it must be a bug with mIRC, so I was going to post this in
Bug Reports, but then he removed the router and initiated
dcc chat with me, it connected, and I saw ..
<- :nick!user@host NOTICE <my nick> : DCC Chat (<ip>)
<- ::nick!user@host PRIVMSG <my nick> :
DCC CHAT chat <long ip> <port>


So I had him try /raw again, he said ..
<his nick> i saw this
<his nick> -> Server: privmsg <my nick> :
DCC CHAT chat <long ip> <port>


Any clues as to why this is happening?

Edit: I searched and read through many posts but didn't find anything like this.

This thread might have some relevance, the weird characters appearing in RAW are similar.

Other than the suggestions that are already there I dunno why this occurs.

Regards,