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To get UTF-8 working properly with mIRC, you need at least version 6.17 of mIRC, which you can get here: http://www.mirc.com/get.html. | To get UTF-8 working properly with mIRC, you need at least version 6.17 of mIRC, which you can get here: http://www.mirc.com/get.html. Non-windows users are assumed to have been using clients with proper encoding support for years already. | ||
However, mIRC will not display and encode text in UTF-8 by default, you need to change a couple of settings first. There are two places you need to change the settings in: the "'''<tt>mIRC Options</tt>'''" dialog and the "'''<tt>Select Font</tt>'''" dialog. | However, mIRC will not display and encode text in UTF-8 by default, you need to change a couple of settings first. There are two places you need to change the settings in: the "'''<tt>mIRC Options</tt>'''" dialog and the "'''<tt>Select Font</tt>'''" dialog. | ||
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=== What needs to be changed === | === What needs to be changed === | ||
Once you've reached the font dialog, you need to change the following things: | Once you've reached the font dialog, you need to change the following things: | ||
*The "'''<tt>UTF-8:</tt>'''" section to "'''<tt>Display and encode</tt>'''". | *The "'''<tt>UTF-8:</tt>'''" section to "'''<tt>Display and encode</tt>'''". | ||
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== Troubleshooting == | == Troubleshooting == | ||
'''Q:''' I have changed all of these settings but I still get strange symbols or empty boxes when someone sends UTF-8 encoded text to me! | |||
: '''A:''' This means you don't use a font that has the characters being used. Note, recent windows versions come with 'Lucidia Sans Unicode' - which has most glyphs you're likely to want. Otherwise, you can try use these: | |||
:* [http://www.lightworker.com/Download/Fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF Arial Unicode MS] - '''Warning: this is a 22MB download!''' | |||
:* [http://kosmos.kawaii-shoujo.net/MS-UIGothic.ttf MS UI Gothic] - Note: this is a 7.8MB download. (courtesy of DeathWolf) | |||
:* [http://irc.server.md/fixedsys.zip Fixedsys Excelsior] - A monospace font based on the standard latin windows Fixedsys font, with wide support for different unicode ranges. Only 100kb download. | |||
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'''Q:''' How can I fix other problems like characters not in system codepage being sent as ? marks, or logs/dcc file names being scrambled? | |||
:'''A:''' Upgrade to 6.2 which fixes various encoding bugs - and make sure that 'multibyte display' is ''off''. |
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