Support for /CODEPAGE

[Jack L.]

What is codepage?
----- Original Message -----
From: Szymon Stefanek <pragma at kvirc.net>
To: hybrid at lists.ircd-hybrid.org
Subject: Support for /CODEPAGE
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 05:39:45 +0100

> 
> This one works flawlessly with several cyrillic codepages on the WeNet 
> network. One can choose the codepage to use and the server takes case
> of the encoding/decoding.
> 
> :irc.wenet.ru 001 Pragma :Welcome to the WeNet IRC Network Pragma!~pragma at xxx
> :irc.wenet.ru 002 Pragma :Your host is irc.wenet.ru, running version ircd-RU!
> (Bahamut-1.4.35)-1.0(07)-02
> ...
> :irc.wenet.ru 005 Pragma ... CODEPAGES ... :are available on this server
> ...
> :irc.wenet.ru 700 Pragma CP1251 :is now your translation scheme
> >>> CODEPAGE UTF8
> :irc.wenet.ru 700 Pragma UTF8 :is now your translation scheme
> >>> JOIN #tokyo,#ny,#siena,#ukraina
> 
> It would be nice to see it also on other IRC daemons.
> 
> The server stores and manages utf8 strings: it is just an assumption, almost 
> no code is required for that.
> 
> The server notifies the "CODEPAGES" feature after client login and puts the 
> client in utf8 mapping (so no decoding is needed on the server side).
> Low-range clients that can't handle unicode input or make charset translations
> would try to set their own codepage. Smarter clients (that can
> handle unicode and remap to other charsets) would just keep the utf8 setting.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Szymon Stefanek
> 
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                              ~Jack~

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