RFE: UTF8

[riderplus]

When will you enable UTF8 support?

[dmashal]

Hopefully this release.

[antdude]

Still no support after two years? :(

[JonnyWhatshisface]

I think one way forward may be to code in a CP437 emulation, otherwise some translation functions would be in order.

[niponic]

I think one way forward may be to code in a CP437 emulation, otherwise some translation functions would be in order.

I tested using the CP437 emulator, but for me it did not solve 100% effectively, I am Brazilian and my language has accents and cedilla, so characters of the type "ç is u é" among others do not work. They even appear in the window, but when sending to the server I get the error message: Message Rejection for Containing Inalid UTF-8 "

[mkeen]

FWIW, I am having very good luck with this cp437 emulator (https://github.com/keaston/cp437). Not sure there is much need to bake an emulator into the IRC client itself when there are some external options. The above paired with the font unscii is working perfectly with BitchX. Below is my bitchx.desktop file. Makes starting BitchX a breeze. Can replace kitty with your terminal of choice.

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=kitty --title BitchX --override font_family=unscii --override font_size=16 cp437 BitchX -N
Name=BitchX
Icon=/home/drex/.local/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/bitchx.png

[JonnyWhatshisface]

@niponic I'm not very strong with character sets but I'm doing some homework to figure it out. Meanwhile, have you tried this?

config.h:287-293:
/*
 * If you use LINUX and non ISO8859-1 fonts with custom screen mapping,
 * and if your see some pseudographics instead of your national characters,
 * define this to solve the problem.
 *
 */
#undef CHARSET_CUSTOM

[niponic]

@JonnyWhatshisface I tested your suggestion, but nothing changed.
I am sending 2 prints attached. One using bitchx with cp437 emulator and the other without.
When using the cp437 emulator to run bitchx I solve the problem of displaying the bitchx ansi characters, but in the chat messages the special characters of my Portuguese language such as "ç á é í ã" do not work.
Image this: https://ibb.co/W00BWgp

On the other hand, if I run BitchX without the cp437 emulator, my language characters work in chat but bitchx characters don't:
image this: https://ibb.co/7KTKyPw