URL:
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?8062>
Summary: Better hash function for the nick colors
Project: WeeChat
Submitted by: seirl
Submitted on: Thu 30 May 2013 01:56:27 PM GMT
Category: irc plugin
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
IRC nick: seirl
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Details:
Currently the hash function used to color nicks in the IRC plugin is a simple
sum of every unicode character of the colored nick.
This causes some problems :
* Two nicks that are identical except some permutated letters (alice and
ailce) will display identically;
* Speaking more generally, similar nicks (alice and alidd), instead of being
visually distinguished by the colors, are more likely to appear identically
and being confused more easily.
Using a hash function with a better randomized repartition (in this case, the
djb2 algorithm) is a way of solving this problem.
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File Attachments:
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Date: Thu 30 May 2013 01:56:27 PM GMT Name: irc-nick.c.patch Size: 183B
By: seirl
Patch for src/plugins/irc/irc-nick.c
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/download.php?file_id=28210>
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