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[SOLVED] which encoding for displaying ascii chars?

2020-08-23T04:09:14-04:00

Tried a lot with iconv and it took me a very long time to figure the right set. In the end I could not say which setting was the correct one for iconv as I changed back to a latin locale on the eggdrop system and the owner of the ircd also upgraded to a newer version.

As a matter of fact iconv helped and I learnt something new. Thanks CrazyCat!

Statistics: Posted by raider2k — Sun Aug 23, 2020 4:09 am

[SOLVED] which encoding for displaying ascii chars?

2020-06-17T02:03:05-04:00

ok, that's new to me. before I look into it: how can I find out what is the current encoding of a file?

Statistics: Posted by raider2k — Wed Jun 17, 2020 2:03 am

[SOLVED] which encoding for displaying ascii chars?

2020-06-17T00:52:20-04:00

Are your scripts in utf-8 ? try to use iconv with a faulty one to ensure it is, and reload it.

Statistics: Posted by CrazyCat — Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:52 am

[SOLVED] which encoding for displaying ascii chars?

2020-08-23T04:06:38-04:00

hello everyone,

I'm soon migrating to a newer debian version as support for the older ones will be dropped. to be prepared I installed debian 10 and installed latest eggdrop version.

as I have lots of ascii characters in my scripts outputs (like • or » or german and nordic letters like ö) they are now not getting displayed correctly on irc. On the new system they appear as Â• or Â» on the irc.
This is not a new issue which is why in the past I chose a latin1 or latin15 charset (dpkg-reconfigure locales), logged on to ssh with new locale settings, had eggdrop die, start it up again and it used to work. I was not successful with this this time...

I tried he following locales:
- en_US.UTF-8
- en_US ISO-8859-1
- en_US.ISO-8859-15
- de_DE.UTF-8
- de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15

and every time did a fresh ssh logon, then bot restart.

when I use alt+numpad to type those letters they show up correctly in the terminal (ssh) window. they also look correct when I type them into a tcl script - unless those chars are in a tcl file already when opening one, then they look like a block. I put such a character in a txt file and let it cat to terminal window: displayed ok.
Because of that I also tried using the utf-8 codes, such as \xBB but I get the same result regardless of system locale set. however when I do "putlog "» - \xBB" both show up ok in eggdrop telnet session. It is not irc server related as it worked on the same networks before.

I really hope someone can help with this issue bc I don't know what to do anymore to display those characters correctly again

thx to everyone right away!

Statistics: Posted by raider2k — Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:29 pm