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mTCP: A Unicode enabled IRCjr is available for testing (Announce)

posted by boeckmann, Aachen, Germany, 27.01.2023, 23:15

> http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/download/ircjr_2023-01-26.zip
>
> There is a detailed readme.txt file in the zip. Here is the short
> version:
>
> * This version supports UTF-8 encoding and decoding.
> * The mapping from Unicode to your local character set is defined in a
> file. I've included a mapping for CP437.
> * Enable it by setting an environment variable.
>
> If it works correctly, you should be able to use Unicode in messages and on
> channel topics.
>
> If you are not using CP437 or are using a non-US layout keyboard you need
> to set your codepage and keyboard layout as you usually do, but also create
> your own mapping file from Unicode to your code page. I'd like to include
> more mapping files but I wanted to get some early feedback first.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
Very nice. One remark: did you consider mapping Unicode characters to multiple code page characters, for something like, don't hit me, emojis :-D

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