Talk:IRC/Channels/Archives/2007
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charsets at Freenode
Does the presence of encoding information mean that Freenode lacks any network-wide convention about interpretation of non-ASCII octets? Incnis Mrsi 15:00, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
- Charset encoding is not a server-side issue, but depends on client setup. Since Wikimedia projects span hundreds of languages, sometimes is necessary to specify an explicit encoding for non latin alphabets. In general, UTF-8 is enough (and easier). --Brownout(msg) 17:39, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
- Charset encoding is not a server-side issue It's not right. In Russian-spoken networks it's a common practice for years to recode a client IRC stream on the fly. This solution allow connecting to a network with virtually any client.
- I think that may be useful to link a smart server tuned for Russian users (very unfamiliar with UTF-8), making e.g. an automatic splitting of messages which could not fit in 510 bytes in UTF-8. BTW the server lem.freenode.net (Moscow) does not function at all last days. Incnis Mrsi 06:16, 29 May 2007 (UTC)