Re: irssi~bug?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:14:18PM +0100, scOrpiOnn wrote:
>  all nicks that contais "~" are not recognized by irssi ;)

  That would be because it is RFC compliant.  The IRC server(s) allowing
~ in nicks aren't RFC compliant.

  Specifically section 2.3.1 of RFC2812:

nickname   =  ( letter / special ) *8( letter / digit / special / "-" )
special    =  %x5B-60 / %x7B-7D
                 ; "[", "]", "\", "`", "_", "^", "{", "|", "}"

That latter line is just expanding the "%x5B-60 / %x7B-7D".

  Of course strictly speaking any IRC server allowing nicks over 9
characters is also going against the RFC, but that's a minor infraction
especially when there are now IRCds using ~ (and &) as extra nick
prefixes to denote special user modes.

-Ath
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