Re: [tlug] UTF-8 in mIRC petition

[momoi@example.com (Katsuhiko Momoi)]

David,

Have you tried Mozilla? 
It has Chatzilla that can accommodate all the encodings it supports.
It's not multilingual but can change the encoding on the fly. 

/charset iso-2022-jp

will switch the encoding to iso-2022-jp. Mozilla's layout engine is
multilingual and so if someone sends UTF-8, it would have no problem
with that if you do:

/charset utf-8

Currently, the charset command sets the encoding to be used for all
channels. That is a limitation but volunteers are finalizing a patch
that will allow users to set charset per channel.
On Linux, Mozilla supports any encoding without you changing the locale
as long as you have the fonts for that language.

- Kat

David Oftedal wrote:

OK, I imagine some of you have tried this:

Trying to get Japanese input working in mIRC, only to find that <your favorite language here> doesn't work anymore.

All the different encodings used on the Internet really makes it hard to communicate across OSes and between different countries. If I'm lucky, my mail sig in improvised kanzi will be converted from EUC to SJIS or Unicode when I post this mail, but I really don't know.

That's why I've created a petition for mIRC to switch to UTF-8 starting with its next release.

It's at http://petitiononline.com/utf8/

I know it's not DIRECTLY related to Linux in Japan, but it WOULD make chatting between Windows and Linux users in Japanese and other weird languages a whole lot easier. Especially if you use several weird languages at once.

-Dave Oftedal

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