On: The History of IRC

[qznc]

One big issue with IRC is the missing support of Unicode. An IRC log is a potential mixture of latin1, utf8, and whatever encoding user write.

I fear that cannot be fixed in a backwards-compatible way.

[sirn → qznc]

That's a big one indeed. I'm currently running a small private IRC server (~50 users) for local community speaking Thai; the best solution I found for encoding issue is to force everyone to use Unicode. However, this is a really hard thing to do, as most do not see benefit over whatever they're using (tis620 in my case) or benefit over upgrading their dated client.