Posted January 8, 2012 Recently I've started using an IRC to speak with some people from a different country. Normally, over a browser, this isn't as a problem, as all text is converted to UTF-8. On the IRC however, I end up with a bunch of garbled text/mojibake/ect. I've tried setting the application (mIRC)'s to use Japanese as its locale, and I of course have the Japanese language/microsoft IME already installed. The problem is that the character encoding that they use (and by extent, the IRC server in general) is ISO-2022-JP, while I'm of course running a computer that uses a different character encoding. I'm not really sure how to fix it, and Google has been (surprisingly) all but useless. As a side note, the client supposedly converts message to UTF-8, which theoretically should allow me to read them. Err- well, apparently it doesn't. Picture of the problem: Anyway to fix it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 9, 2012 Have a look at :- http://www.japanese-irc.net/index.php/Channel:Encoding Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 9, 2012 Ah, thank you very much . I couldn't get it to work with mIRC, but it looks like it's functioning now that I've switched to xchat. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 27, 2016 Check this one, more about...character encoding Lee Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
