IRC proxy with transparent character set conversion | ||
1. Purpose
In an ideal world, everyone would use UTF-8
for text transmission. UTF-8 supports nearly all characters of all languages,
including the French accented characters, the cyrillic alphabets, the
Arabian writing and even the thousands of ideographs from Chinese.
However, in the world we live in, people use different encodings. Finnish people use ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15 or Windows-1252; Japanese people use ISO-2022-JP, SHIFT-JIS or EUC-JP; Polish people use ISO-8859-2, and so on. People using different encodings will see other people's text as an unreadable mess of code. This proxy is a solution for IRC users who want to be able to talk with everyone despite of their character set differences. The primary audience of this program are the European IRC users who occassionally talk on Japanese channels.
With the proxy, all you need is an IRC client that understands and speaks
fluently UTF-8. 2. Installation (unix systems)
To install iconvircproxy, follow the following instructions:
To configure iconvircproxy, edit the ircproxy.cfg file and adjust the settings as you see fit. The default settings are ok for most IRCNet users. Run iconvircproxy: ./iconvircproxy After iconvircproxy has been started, connect your IRC client to the computer the proxy is running at. In most IRC clients, this command will do it: /server your.host.name 6622 Replace the number 6622 with the port you specified in the listen_port setting in the configuration file. 3. Installation (windows systems)
To install iconvircproxy, follow the following instructions:
Run iconvircproxy: iconvircproxy After iconvircproxy has been started, connect your IRC client to the computer the proxy is running at. In most IRC clients, this command will do it: /server localhost:6622 If you are running the program in some other machine than the same where the irc client is ran, replace localhost with the address of the host. Replace the number 6622 with the port you specified in the listen_port setting in the configuration file. Note that your IRC client / terminal must be fluent in UTF-8. 4. Recommended IRC clients
For a list of IRC clients supporting UTF-8, see
http://freedesktop.org/Software/IrcClients.
Also, IrcII will also soon support UTF-8. 5. Troubleshooting
Q: I get a "too many user connections" message. A: This message comes from your IRC server. You can try to find a less restrictive IRC server. The server might also be full, try again later.
Q: Everything else works fine, but Japanese characters show as squares.
Q: Japanese text displays fine, but how can I type it?
Q: "Could not connect to host." 6. Copying
iconvircproxy has been written by Joel Yliluoma, a.k.a.
Bisqwit, and is distributed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL). This means that you are free to use for whatever purpose you want to as long as you wish, free to analyze the source code, free to modify it to suit your needs, free to create derived works of it, free to sell it if you want to, but there is no warranty and if you distribute it, you are not allowed to restrict these freedoms. If you modify the source code or create derived works of it, you are encouraged to share your creations with the original author: zJoelQ YliA0zluomsa <biesqwiat@ikJewi.fi> 7. Requirements
GNU make and C++ compiler is required to recompile the source code. For running the program, there are no external requirements. GCC version 3.3 or greater is required. 8. Runtime configuration
(NEW in version 1.6.0)
To reconfigure iconvircproxy without disconnecting from the server,
just do 9. DownloadingDownloading help
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