Package: irssi-text Version: 0.8.10-2 Severity: normal Some IRC servers (e.g. Unreal IRCd [1]) support ISO-8859 characters in nicknames.
When running irssi-text in a UTF-8 terminal, it fails to display these nicknames properly. Note, however, that ISO-8859 chars themselves are displayed ok when recieved from channel echo. This issue is MUCH more annoying than it might seem at first glance. You can't type these nicknames, so the only way of referencing them would be auto-completion. But, auto-completion doesn't work either, as its also affected by the same problem. It only completes untill the character you can't type. The consequence can be terrible, for example, if someone with an unreferenceable nickname is vandalising your channel, and you can't kick him because you can't reference his nickname. I'm attaching a sample screenshot. [1] http://www.vulnscan.org/UnrealIRCd/unreal32docs.html#feature_nickchars -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-12-amd64-k8 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Versions of packages irssi-text depends on: ii irssi 0.8.10-2 terminal based IRC client irssi-text recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Robert Millan
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