Hello,

When I enable the mIRC debugging windows, and then paste any unicode characters in any chat window, such as ěščřžýáíéúůťňď (visible depending on your browser's unicode support and correct font) then those special characters are not rendered properly in the debugging window. I have confirmed this issue with other people.

are they showing up as rectangles because it might be the font you are using doesn't support the characters you are trying to display.

Personally I recommend the DejaVu set.

I am presuming you are using something similar to /debug @raw so after creating the window, try using /font @raw <fontsize> <fontname> to see if the outcome changes

I am using the same font I am using in the chat window - the chat windows shows the characters correctly. It is only the debugging window.

The debug window does not show rectangles (or any other substitute character) it just shows plain wrong characters. Just try it yourself: &#283;š&#269;&#345;žýáíéú&#367;&#357;&#328;&#271; put those things in the chat window - they will display correctly, but will display wrongly in debug window.

The only thing that comes to my mind as an explanation for this behavior is that the debug window splits the 2-byte characters (the ones which are unicode and not mapped to ANSI or ASCII) into 2 1-byte characters.

Confirmed.

Yup, confirmed with 7.18 beta

Just Help Khaled out, the debug window text looks like:

This is by design.

there is a simple way for you to view Unicode in your debug window or file. when enabling debug mode, use the following line:

Is't it The dollar sign and string are missing. Or was it done that way on purpose?

It was on purpose. Perhaps you should try commands before attempting to correct them.

I wasn't sure, and I wasn't "attempting" to "correct," just showing it in a colored highlight in question so I can be given an answer to it. You didn't have to sound discourteously harsh to put me in a tight spot. Just because you know, doesn't mean other people do.

as with /filter -k, mIRC takes the <alias> argument you've supplied to /debug (which incidentally, unlike in /filter, may contain spaces), encloses it in '$' and '($1-)' and evaluates the result.

with this:



mIRC evaluates $utfdecode($1-), which is acceptable.

with this:



mIRC evaluates $$utfdecode()($1-), which is not acceptable, as it always evaluates to $null.

Thank you very much, jaytea. I appreciate your taking the time for the explanation.

I can confirm that the following code:



solves my issue. Thank you.