From 7fa59b0f351ead7a17000ed937c8a9704f13a6bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:11:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Changed definition of notFunky to include extended characters
 that might not be printable in my locale.

---
 src/ircutils.py | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ircutils.py b/src/ircutils.py
index e2b95e8df..521551466 100644
--- a/src/ircutils.py
+++ b/src/ircutils.py
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ from fix import *
 import re
 import string
 import fnmatch
+import operator
 
 import debug
 import world
@@ -190,7 +191,7 @@ def bold(s):
 def isValidArgument(s):
     return '\r' not in s and '\n' not in s and '\x00' not in s
 
-notFunky = string.printable+'\x02'
+notFunky = string.ascii[32:]+'\x02'
 def safeArgument(s):
     if isValidArgument(s) and s.translate(string.ascii, notFunky) == '':
         return s
@@ -203,6 +204,21 @@ def replyTo(msg):
     else:
         return msg.nick
 
+def privmsgPayload(L, sep, limit=450):
+    """Returns a valid privmsg payload given a list of strings and a separator.
+
+    Items are popped from the back of the list until the payload is small
+    enough to fit into a single PRIVMSG payload.
+    """
+    shrinkList(L, sep, limit)
+    return sep.join(L)
+
+def shrinkList(L, sep='', limit=450):
+    """Shrinks a list of strings to a given combined length of limit."""
+    length = len(sep)
+    while reduce(operator.add, map(length.__add__, map(len, L)), 0)> limit:
+          L.pop()
+
 
 class nick(str):
     """This class does case-insensitive comparisons of nicks."""