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Re: bug ?

> > 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...

Since, as abovestated, |nick| and \nick\ are the same nick, and since you
can refer to one nickname however you like, xchat has no way to know that
these are different people. XChat, as well it should, treats Darien,
DARIEN, and darIEN as the same nickname. It has no way of knowing if these
are different people or not (and it's supposed to treat them as the same).
\nick\ and |NICK| and so on are exactly the same as darien and DARIEN.

Basically, you're asking xchat to be case-sensitive, and this could screw
it up on networks that do things the right way. Don't ask xchat to break
because dalnet did.

--Dan

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