Bug 231090

Summary: can't join certain channel like #losbaños
Product: [Applications] konversation Reporter: jepong <jeffreyseguerra>
Component: generalAssignee: Konversation Developers <konversation-devel>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: hein
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.2.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description jepong 2010-03-17 12:59:42 UTC 
Version:           1.2.3 (using 4.4.1 (KDE 4.4.1), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.31-20-generic

i find it very weird i cant join the channel #losbaños on DALnet... i can enter the channel put it creates a new one for me and i cant see the regular chatters... x-chat windws is able to enter the chatroom
Comment 1 Eike Hein 2010-03-18 01:44:30 UTC 
This isn't a bug, but a configuration issue. The #losbaños you want enter has its channel name encoded in the Latin-1 text encoding. Konversation defaults to using the more modern UTF-8 encoding. The special character "ñ" is encoded differently in Latin-1 and UTF-8.

Please go into the settings for the Identity that you use for your DALnet connection, and on the Advanced tab change the default encoding setting to e.g. "Western Europe (ISO-8859-15)", then you should be able to enter the channel.

X-Chat on Windows probably defaults to the Windows codepage for your locale which presumably closely corresponds to Latin-1.