G.Miliotis (Corfiot) says:
> join #<ctrl+k><channel>
>
> you can seem to appear as an op in channels using this method when someone
> does a /whois on you.
> This goes for inverse and bold. Admittedly a client issue but may cause
> problems with impersonation of channel ops and a multitude of scripts.
Yep. I have seen this for months on EFNet as well. Its also how they
join #2,000 ...
>
> Maybe the low end of the ascii codes should be stripped from channel names?
> This would of course not affect foreign language channel names, at least in
> my opinion nor break any clients.
Well, channels are supposed to be iso-8859. Masking the 8 bit code
to iso-8859 limits would help, but then thats a scan through of every byte
of the channel name. Not a good idea. It surely seems a better idea to
have the client coders add some means of being able to see that these
are high bit chars instead of mucking ircd. Moreover, even if you did
strip, you'd have to change all servers at once, or you would have people
unable to join some channels listed that are legitimate.
- Dianora
--
Diane Bruce, http://www.db.net/~db [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- I got bored with the last witty aphorism.
