Re: intelligent charset recognition for irc

[Martin Norbäck <d95mback@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:02:03PM +0200, Roman Czyborra ->
> 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:
> 	/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. 


Ah, but this is in the client. There is no way for the sender to send a
charset tag with the message.

What I need is to be able to use different translations for different
messages, because people use different charsets to write their messages.

> 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.

They sure oughta. Good thing that gpg uses UTF-8.

	n.

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