Problems with special nordic characters.

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:52 pm

I have trubles with special norwegian characters. The bot is ordered to join #Tromsø in the config-file, but ends up in #TromsÃ. If I do a ".+chan #Tromsø", the bot joins as it should. But whenever the bot is restarted it won't join again.

I've come across this before but I can't remember the workaround. Any ideas?

demond · Post by **demond** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:04 pm

put this in your config (before loading channels module):

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encoding system cp865

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:25 pm

Didnt work...

Also tried utf-8 and iso8859-1, made no difference.

demond · Post by **demond** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:47 pm

then find out which encoding is used by your editor - the one you use to edit eggdrop.conf - and use that as argument of [encoding system]

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:43 pm

Shouldn't matter, I copied the file directly from another eggdrop install made earlier today. Used ASCII ftp-transfer. And the other eggrdrop runs fine without any encoding system-entry in the configfile.

Used a fresh install of Joe to edit both files.

demond · Post by **demond** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:15 pm

the thing that actually matters is operating system's locale; your new host obviously has different locale set than the old one, so you need to find out what the old locale is and use that in [encoding system]

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:33 pm

I've allready tried doing a "export LANG=no_NO" which is Norwegian. Still the same result in eggdrop, but at least the "ø" is displayed correctly in joe..

demond · Post by **demond** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:05 am

eggdrop (actually Tcl) doesn't care about exported LANG and operating system's locale; it needs to be told explicitly which encoding should be used when translating external strings to its internal unicode representation