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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