discord-irc: Unicode character problem

Every message that uses the character ç next to another Unicode returns a strange character.

Using encode: UTF-8

çã Shows how згo çõ Shows how уш

This is problem with the Iconv-lite

This can only be reproduced if the message is sent from irc to discord irc can not be UTF-8

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Created 6 years ago
Comments: 20 (2 by maintainers)

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I managed to workaround this by adding "encoding": null into "ircOptions": { }, as I don’t need charset recording, because everyone is either using UTF-8 or that is not my problem.

Thanks to:

getting enough annoyed by having a bad day and one user accidentally hitting that button
https://github.com/martynsmith/node-irc/issues/327#issuecomment-74918037 It is for an optional feature for converting a server’s encoding from UTF-8 to something else.
https://github.com/aadsm/jschardet/issues/47 for talking about random charsets
https://node-irc-upd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API.html#irc.Client and README for pointing me to there.

Mikaela on May 30, 2018

I started seeing this or something similar after updating to https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc/releases/tag/v2.6.1 but I am and my users are using UTF-8.

For example when I say Kyllä (Yes in Finnish) at IRC, it comes to Discord as KyllĂ¤. And in longer strings of text, the ä/ö start turning into Chinese or Japanese characters randomly, but not always.

Someone following this said that this is a result of double-UTF-8 even if I am not sure what that means.

Mikaela on May 13, 2018