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Why to use UTF-8
- The characters that you send are visible to everyone.
- There is no unclearity what you say.
- Example:
- sain t?it?
- This can be understood two ways:
- sain täitä
- I got louses
- sain töitä
- I got work
- sain täitä
- This can be understood two ways:
- sain t?it?
- Example:
- All of the characters that you need are in it.
TODO: add other reasons.
Why to disable fallback.
- You know when people aren’t sending UTF-8.
- You can tell them it.
- You can take action to their misbehavour.
- You can tell them it.
- You aren’t supporting depracated (by UTF-8) charsets.
TODO: add other reasons.
How to use UTF-8.
HexChat
UTF-8 is used by default, but if your configuration is migrated from XChat you might not be using it.
Open HexChat and there Network List (CTRL + S or search from the File menu.
Edit network and ensure that the Character set says UTF-8 (Unicode).
“IRC (Latin/Unicode hybrid)” is not valid UTF-8 and mustn’t be used!
irssi
I have copied these instructions from Kapsi’s “Irssi ja UTF-8” guide so these are untested and I wish someone will verify me that these work.
/set term_charset UTF-8
/set recode_out_default_charset UTF-8
/set recode_fallback ""
/save- Sets terminal charset.
- Sets outgoing charset as UTF-8.
- Disables fallback when received messages aren’t UTF-8.
- Saves irssi config.
WeeChat
/set charset.default.decode ""
/set charset.default.encode "UTF-8"
/save- Stops decoding/fallbacking to other charsets than what we send.
- Send UTF-8.
- Saves WeeChat config files.
XChat
XChat defaults to weird charset that claims to be UTF-8 and confuses users as in reality it’s not UTF-8!
Open server list from the file menu or press CTRL + S, edit network and select the network. Ensure that the charset says UTF-8 (Unicode).
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