encoding

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/11/25 Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan at case.edu>:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:53 AM, luca72 <lucaberto at libero.it> wrote:
>>
>> hello i'm writing an irc client, i use for encoding the utf-8 but i
>> never see all the typed sign in the correct way, anyone know the
>> standard encodind for the irc channels?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Luca
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>
> This is something where Google is very helpful. I haven't dealt with this
> before, but a look at the definition of the protocol says there isn't any
> standard encoding. As a matter of fact, the RFC specifically says there is
> no standard character set[1]. The only thing it specifies is that IRC uses
> an 8-bit protocol. Since UTF-8 that doesn't work, I'd try using ISO-8859 and
> CP1252 and see if those work better.
>
> [1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1459.html (section 2.2)
>

In any case I would suggest that you use UTF-8 anyway.  You will save
your users a lot of headaches. While I am a big standards nut, this is
the use case where you should divert.

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