What are the funny characters that I see at times in channel names or nicknames over IRC?
Many people on IRC may use certain ASCII characters instead of their Scandivanian counterparts to convey the same. For instance: [, { ‘a’ with two dots over it ], } ‘a’ with a small circle above it \, | ‘o’ with two dots over it, or a dash (“/irchelp/”) through it (“[“, “]”, and “\” = upper case) In addition, IRC supports the ISO Latin-1 8-bit character set. Thus, Japanese IRC’ers use special ANSI escape control sequences to transmit their Kanji alphabet. However, destructive individuals often use clone processes to connect to IRC servers and spew garbage. If you see a lump of funny looking nicknames, please report them to an IRC operator.
