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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!
'''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. If you want a font with most unicode characters, use this:<br>http://www.lightworker.com/Download/Fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF - '''Warning: this font is 22MB large!'''<br>http://kosmos.kawaii-shoujo.net/MS-UIGothic.ttf - Note: this font is 7.8MB large. (Courtesy of DeathWolf.)
: '''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!'''
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:* [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.
*'''Q:''' Help! I can send and receive UTF-8 fine, but any character I try and send that's not in my system codepage gets changed to a ? rather than being converted. Howtofix?
*'''A:''' As stated under the "Options - What needs to be changed" heading, you should mark "Multibyte Editbox" in the options dialog (under IRC - Messages). If you do this, it ought to work.


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*'''Q:''' Well, I'm not sure what other questions there are, so this is the end.
'''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:''' Ok, we'll call it a night then.
:'''A:''' Upgrade to 6.2 which fixes various encoding bugs - and make sure that 'multibyte display' is ''off''.
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