Dear Martin:
> Well, on the irc channels I am on, iso 646 is still used, however
> it is typed manually by people without access to a Swedish
> keyboard. You are right that this is a crude hack, but there is no
> way to specify your charset on irc, unfortunately.
This is not true, IRC can already do better than that:
/VERSION
*** Client: ircII 4.4M (internal version 20000126)
/HELP SET TRANSLATION
*** Help on translation
Usage: SET TRANSLATION <character translation table>
The TRANSLATION variable defines a character translation
table. By default, ircII assumes that all text processed
over the network is in the ISO 8859/1 map, also known as
Latin-1. This is identical to standard ASCII, except that
it is extended with additional characters in the range
128-255. Many environments by default use the Latin-1 map,
such as X Windows, MS Windows, AmigaDOS, and modern ANSI
terminals including Digital VT200, VT300, VT400 series and
MS-Kermit. However, many older environments use non-standard
extensions to ASCII, and yet others use 7-bit national
replacement sets.
Some available settings for the TRANSLATION variable:
8-bit sets:
HP_MCS Hewlett Packard Extended Roman 8.
MACINTOSH Apple Macintosh computers and boat
anchors.
CP437 Old IBM PC, compatibles and Atari ST.
CP850 New IBM PC compatibles and IBM PS/2.
CP850 New IBM PC compatibles and IBM PS/2.
DEC_MCS DEC Multinational Character Set.
VAX/VMS. VT320's and other 8-bit
Digital terminals use this set by
default, but I recommend changing to
Latin-1 in the terminal Set-Up.
DG_MCS Data General Multinational Character Set.
NEXT NeXT.
7-bit sets:
ASCII ANSI ASCII, ISO Reg. 006. For American
terminals in 7-bit environments. Default.
DANISH Norwegian/Danish.
DUTCH Dutch.
FINNISH Finnish.
FRENCH ISO French, ISO Reg. 025.
FRENCH_CANADIAN French in Canada.
GERMAN ISO German, ISO Reg. 021.
IRV International Reference Version, ISO
Reg. 002. For use pedantic in ISO 646
environments.
ITALIAN ISO Italian, ISO Reg. 015.
JIS JIS ASCII, ISO Reg. 014. Japanese
ASCII hybrid.
NORWEGIAN_1 ISO Norwegian, Version 1, ISO Reg. 060.
NORWEGIAN_2 ISO Norwegian, Version 2, ISO Reg. 061.
POLISH Converts windows codepage 1250 to ISO-8859-2
POLISH_NOPL Converts both cp1250 and iso8859-2 to latin
equivalents
PORTUGUESE ISO Portuguese, ISO Reg. 016.
PORTUGUESE_COM Portuguese on Digital terminals.
RUSSIAN Russian.
RUSSIAN_ALT Alternative Russian.
RUSSIAN_WIN Russian with Windows.
SPANISH ISO Spanish, ISO Reg. 017.
SWEDISH ISO Swedish, ISO Reg. 010.
SWEDISH_NAMES ISO Swedish for Names, ISO Reg. 011.
SWEDISH_NAMES_COM Swedish. Digital, Hewlett Packard.
SWISS Swiss.
UNITED_KINGDOM ISO United Kingdom, ISO Reg. 004.
UNITED_KINGDOM_COM United Kingdom on DEC and HP terminals.
See Also:
DIGRAPH
BIND ENTER_DIGRAPH
In http://czyborra.com/utf/#UTF-8 I wrote:
PGP 5.0i and IRC II-4.4 still use Latin1 as their canonical
text encoding instead of UTF-8: {cp850,ebcdic}_to_latin1
in pgp-5.0i/src/lib/pgp/helper/pgpCharMap.c and
ircii-4.4/source/translat.c
They oughta move to UTF-8, though.
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