Re: how solve irc chinese nickname?

[Kurt Roeckx <Q@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 03:33:02PM +0100, Fredrik Dahlberg wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but that is something that can easely be changed. The '-' is
currently not used for anything, nor are their plans for it. Same counts
for the '~' btw, which is the uppercase of '^', yet isn't allowed at all,
while '^' is.

What I didn't mention was the '@'. It will not only confuse some clients,
but it could also confuse the servers. The NJOIN message also uses @'s.

Then there is the ':'. It could cause alot problems if you try to start
your nick with that.

There also is a list of other chars, including ',', ' ', '\r', '\n' and 
'\0'. But those should be pretty obvious. Those can't be in the nick at
all, the others couldn't start it.

Anybody can come up with more? :)


Kurt