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<h2 id="why-to-use-utf-8">Why to use UTF-8</h2>
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<li>The characters that you send are visible to everyone.</li>
<li>There is no unclearity what you say.
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<li>Example:
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<li><em>sain t?it?</em>
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<li>This can be understood two ways:
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<li><em>sain täitä</em>
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<li><em>I got louses</em></li>
</ul></li>
<li><em>sain töitä</em>
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<li><em>I got work</em></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
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<li>All of the characters that you need are in it.</li>
</ul>
<p>TODO: add other reasons.</p>
<h3 id="why-to-disable-fallback.">Why to disable fallback.</h3>
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<li>You know when people aren't sending UTF-8.
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<li>You can tell them it.
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<li>You can take action to their misbehavour.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>You aren't supporting depracated (by UTF-8) charsets.</li>
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<p>TODO: add other reasons.</p>
<h2 id="how-to-use-utf-8.">How to use UTF-8.</h2>
<h3 id="hexchat">HexChat</h3>
<p>UTF-8 is used by default, but if your configuration is migrated from XChat you might not be using it.</p>
<p>Open HexChat and there Network List (CTRL + S or search from the File menu.</p>
<p>Edit network and ensure that the Character set says <strong>UTF-8 (Unicode).</strong></p>
<p>&quot;IRC (Latin/Unicode hybrid)&quot; <strong>is not valid UTF-8</strong> and <strong>mustn't be used!</strong></p>
<h3 id="irssi">irssi</h3>
<p>I have copied these instructions from <a href="http://www.kapsi.fi/ohjeet/irssi-utf8.html">Kapsi's &quot;Irssi ja UTF-8&quot; guide</a> so these are untested and I wish someone will verify me that these work.</p>
<pre><code>/set term_charset UTF-8
/set recode_out_default_charset UTF-8
/set recode_fallback &quot;&quot;
/save</code></pre>
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<li>Sets terminal charset.</li>
<li>Sets outgoing charset as UTF-8.</li>
<li>Disables fallback when received messages aren't UTF-8.</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="weechat">WeeChat</h3>
<pre><code>/set charset.default.decode &quot;&quot;
/set charset.default.encode &quot;UTF-8&quot;</code></pre>
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<li>Stops decoding/fallbacking to other charsets than what we send.</li>
<li>Send UTF-8.</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="xchat">XChat</h3>
<p><strong>XChat defaults to weird charset that claims to be UTF-8 and confuses users as in reality it's not UTF-8!</strong></p>
<p>Open server list from the file menu or press CTRL + S, edit network and select the network. Ensure that the charset says <strong>UTF-8 (Unicode)</strong>.</p>
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			`<h2 id="why-to-use-utf-8">Why to use UTF-8</h2>`
			`<ul class="incremental">`
			`<li>The characters that you send are visible to everyone.</li>`
			`<li>There is no unclearity what you say.`
			`<ul class="incremental">`
			`<li>Example:`
			`<ul class="incremental">`
pages/ext/irc-utf-8: fix formatting. 2014-06-19 10:51:23 +02:00			`<li><em>sain t?it?</em>`
pages/ext/irc-utf-8: fix #13 . 2014-06-19 10:48:58 +02:00			`<ul class="incremental">`
			`<li>This can be understood two ways:`
			`<ul class="incremental">`
pages/ext/irc-utf-8: fix formatting. 2014-06-19 10:51:23 +02:00			`<li><em>sain täitä</em>`
pages/ext/irc-utf-8: fix #13 . 2014-06-19 10:48:58 +02:00			`<ul class="incremental">`
pages/ext/irc-utf-8: fix formatting. 2014-06-19 10:51:23 +02:00			`<li><em>I got louses</em></li>`
pages/ext/irc-utf-8: fix #13 . 2014-06-19 10:48:58 +02:00			`</ul></li>`
pages/ext/irc-utf-8: fix formatting. 2014-06-19 10:51:23 +02:00			`<li><em>sain töitä</em>`
pages/ext/irc-utf-8: fix #13 . 2014-06-19 10:48:58 +02:00			`<ul class="incremental">`
pages/ext/irc-utf-8: fix formatting. 2014-06-19 10:51:23 +02:00			`<li><em>I got work</em></li>`
pages/ext/irc-utf-8: fix #13 . 2014-06-19 10:48:58 +02:00			`</ul></li>`
			`</ul></li>`
			`</ul></li>`
			`</ul></li>`
			`</ul></li>`
			`<li>All of the characters that you need are in it.</li>`
			`</ul>`
			`<p>TODO: add other reasons.</p>`
			`<h3 id="why-to-disable-fallback.">Why to disable fallback.</h3>`
			`<ul class="incremental">`
			`<li>You know when people aren't sending UTF-8.`
			`<ul class="incremental">`
			`<li>You can tell them it.`
			`<ul class="incremental">`
			`<li>You can take action to their misbehavour.</li>`
			`</ul></li>`
			`</ul></li>`
			`<li>You aren't supporting depracated (by UTF-8) charsets.</li>`
			`</ul>`
			`<p>TODO: add other reasons.</p>`
			`<h2 id="how-to-use-utf-8.">How to use UTF-8.</h2>`
			`<h3 id="hexchat">HexChat</h3>`
			`<p>UTF-8 is used by default, but if your configuration is migrated from XChat you might not be using it.</p>`
			`<p>Open HexChat and there Network List (CTRL + S or search from the File menu.</p>`
			`<p>Edit network and ensure that the Character set says <strong>UTF-8 (Unicode).</strong></p>`
			`<p>"IRC (Latin/Unicode hybrid)" <strong>is not valid UTF-8</strong> and <strong>mustn't be used!</strong></p>`
			`<h3 id="irssi">irssi</h3>`
			`<p>I have copied these instructions from <a href="http://www.kapsi.fi/ohjeet/irssi-utf8.html">Kapsi's "Irssi ja UTF-8" guide</a> so these are untested and I wish someone will verify me that these work.</p>`
			`<pre><code>/set term_charset UTF-8`
			`/set recode_out_default_charset UTF-8`
			`/set recode_fallback ""`
			`/save</code></pre>`
			`<ol class="incremental" style="list-style-type: decimal">`
			`<li>Sets terminal charset.</li>`
			`<li>Sets outgoing charset as UTF-8.</li>`
			`<li>Disables fallback when received messages aren't UTF-8.</li>`
			`</ol>`
			`<h3 id="weechat">WeeChat</h3>`
			`<pre><code>/set charset.default.decode ""`
			`/set charset.default.encode "UTF-8"</code></pre>`
			`<ol class="incremental" style="list-style-type: decimal">`
			`<li>Stops decoding/fallbacking to other charsets than what we send.</li>`
			`<li>Send UTF-8.</li>`
			`</ol>`
			`<h3 id="xchat">XChat</h3>`
			`<p><strong>XChat defaults to weird charset that claims to be UTF-8 and confuses users as in reality it's not UTF-8!</strong></p>`
			`<p>Open server list from the file menu or press CTRL + S, edit network and select the network. Ensure that the charset says <strong>UTF-8 (Unicode)</strong>.</p>`
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