A genius needed!

Hi there folks

Why is it that when someone called ÉĿıŽàЪÈŤħ® joins my chat room, she appears on my script as ÉĿıŽÃ êÈŤħ®.

If anyone can shed some light onto this id appreciate it.

Especially if they know how i can get the real name to appear instead!

Thanks in advance for any help with this!

Chandler

yeah you need a decoder, ask someone for one. I dont have one to hand right now

So ill be able to get the exact unicode nicknames to show on the script?

Hope so!!

Indeed you will aslong as the characters are in the unicode.

if your using vincula as your conection , go to main dialog , options tab and tick "decode incoming text"

ÉĿıŽàЪÈŤħ® <- that is the nickname in UTF-8 format, as seen in MSN WebChat.

ÉĿıŽÃ êÈŤħ® <- that is the same nickname in ASCII format, which is used by IRC servers and clients such as mIRC.

mIRC-based nicknamed decoders can only give an approximate translation of ASCII into UTF-8 because mIRC isn't compatible with UTF-8 format. Also, if you try to send commands to the Server (such as mode changes, kicking, etc.) you have to give the server the unreadable, ASCII form of the nickname or the server won't know what to do.

Vincula has the option to decode names in channel messages, but they still look weird in the nicklist box, and you can't click on names in the channel. My connection (ClearMSN) decodes all nicknames both in the channel and in the nicklist box, and translates them back to ASCII automatically when you perform commands on them.

chandler, if u use vicula do like ozzy said and check the show users' colors, BUT u will get the decoded nick name using ONLY the 255 $char letters that mirc affords, best of luck.

You can always add something like the following to your popups nicklist. This shows the decoded nick after clicking on the nick.

Current Selected Chatter $+ $chr(58) $msn.decode($$1):{ echo -at 0,12Current Selected User: Decoded: $msn.decode($$1) 0,94 ** 0,12Unicode: $$1 }

Why do that? Then you would have to go through all that process..just use a nickname decoder.