Re: IRC: Problem with some channels

On 23 May, 2004, at 23:12, [email protected] wrote:

> Hi all!
> Since this is my first posting here, I want to thank the authors for 
> this
> great app. Looks nice and clean and has almost all I want (which is not
> much, btw :-))
> Now I just need to find my ICQ password...
>
> Ok, after some praise I want to tell you "pro's" out there about my
> problem and a slightly annoying detail...
>
>
> 1) IRC: cannot join some channels
>
> At first: I suspect that there is a problem with special 
> foreign/non-ascii
> characters, right?
> I've had no problems during the last weeks, but now I want to add 
> another
> channel to chat with but cannot log in. Did the same with the "buddy" 
> and
> it's even on the same server. When I join this channel, then I just 
> get an
> empty window. No idea what's going on, except that there is a German
> "Umlaut" (ä) in it's name. I played around with text-encodings but I 
> don't
> know much about this and just clicked here and there with no plan... 
> and
> no luck ;-)
> Console doesn't say anything, the window opens... but with no content 
> and
> no user-list, not even myself. I can neither send nor receive postings.

You could try ISO-latin-1.

I have no idea about the other problems, but I don't think an IM client 
will generally make a good IRC client (e.g. Trillian makes a pretty 
simplistic IRC client).

- Purr


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