Re: how solve irc chinese nickname?

[Fredrik Dahlberg <fd@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 02:17:55PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > 
> > The first char is used to see if it's a nick or channel. Therefor a nick
> > can't start with #, +, ! or a number. The number if for forward and
> > backward compitibilty. 
> 
> I forgot an & there. Nick's can't start with that either.

You also forgot -, nicks cannot start with -, but they can contain them, this is
for client compability I would think.