Re: bug ?

[Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 06:02:08PM +1000, Peter Zelezny wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:45:27 +0100
> Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> 
> > > > I think xchat got bug with nicks with |nick| and \nick\ on the same
> > > > channel I tried to join a 2nd nick of |nick| to same chan as \nick\ and
> > > > when i quited |nick|\nick\ had problems reading nicks on the channel and
> > > > even itself and i needed to cycle just to update the user list.
> > > 
> > > You simply CAN NOT connect to an IRC server (let alone join a chan)
> > > both with \nick\ and |nick|. In fact, both those nicks are the same
> > > nick. As it is stated in rfc2812, section 2.2:
> > 
> > bahamut (as used by dalnet), probably df, probably unreal, and
> > probably more, all ignore this part of the RFC and it is possible to
> > have these nicks on the network simultaneously.
> 
> That makes interoperability impossible, they really should change this and
> conform to the RFC. Undernet, EFnet, IRCnet and GalaxyNet all do it correctly.

Yes.  But until they do, couldn't xchat treat them as different
nicks?  If two of them can never be online at once, treating them as
different nicks surely won't harm efnet, ircnet, etc...

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