Does not support Cyrillic (Russian) and possibly any non-ASCII nicknames in Jabber chats

[roman@…]

In Jabber conferences (chats), Russian nicknames of consideralble length are displayed simply as "_" (one or several underscores).

Jabber conference tested: linuxforum on conference.jabber.ru

[Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@…>]

It's unknown to me if using Cyrillic characters in IRC nicknames. Do you know of any client and/or server that allows it? BitlBee has to respect the IRC standard, for as much as one exists...

[anonymous]

Yes, there's a lot of them. For example:

• irc.tambov.ru:7770 (UTF-8 encoding), the RusNet network (~10000 users)
• irc.corbina.ru:6667 (windows-1251 encoding) - DalNet.RU (~2000 users)

etc. As for the encodings, UTF-8 (and not any of the legacy ones) should be preferred.

[denis1482@…]

Bump on this. Cyrillic nickname support is needed.

[wilmer]

Bumping is okay, but keep in mind that this is a free software product with pretty much only one developer, there's only so much one person can do in his spare time. Maybe I'll get to this some day but there are *many* things to be done here.

Patches are much more useful than bumping.

[anonymous]

Pardon me for being rude, I just wanted to show that the above user is not the only one who needs the thing. I do not thing I am skilled enough to make some productive patches, but I think I can cut off some lines from your code that check nickname validity... May be I'll give it a try. Thanks for your software and prompt answer!

[Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@…>]

Removing the checks should not be too hard, no. But that'd not be enough as you do have to avoid characters like at least @, ! and spaces in the nickname. IRC protocol parsers will break horribly otherwise.

Also, you have to be careful with nickname comparisons as making those case-sensitive could also cause confusion. That'd be a ~simple matter of using an utf-8-safe comparison function though.

And yeah, no problem, your bump wasn't rude compared to many others I've seen. It's just important that people remember they're using a free product, too many users with an attitude as if they were my biggest paying customer.

[dx]

This was fixed around the 3.2.1 release (two years ago) with the addition of the utf8_nicks setting. Just confirmed it does work in this particular case, i see "Кощей", "Жаба" and "Котэ-Готэ" in the nick list of those channels.