Anyone know how to display foreign character sets, like Japanese?
reddit / irc

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sailingonward · 2014-02-13 00:25

[Here's what I see when I log in to
irc.2ch.net](http://i.imgur.com/gBRrnT4.png)

As you can see I tried going into the font settings, but there's not
much to change.

I was following [this Japanese IRC wiki](http://www.japanese-
irc.net/index.php/Channel:Encoding), but their font form is much more
complex than mine.

I already have the Microsoft Language Bar installed with Japanese on
my Win 7 PC.

Thanks for your help!

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Egotism · 2014-02-13 00:31

These days, with later versions of operating systems, language packs
such as Japanese are visible by default, you may simply need to enable
UTF within your client..  In mIRC hold alt and press R, click on IRC
to expand it, and click Messages, make sure UTF-8 encode/decode
messages option is ticked.   If that isn't the case, you may need to
download the language pack regardless, you will find that in Windows
Update.

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FiXato · 2014-02-13 01:55

And make sure you use a font that includes the glyphs for the Japanese
characters.

Though I guess there is the possibility that Windows by now is doing
proper font substitution when it can't find glyphs in character set of
the currently selected font...

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tavaryn · 2014-02-13 02:30

irc.2ch.net uses the Shift-JIS character encoding, if I remember
correctly, so you might have to click Enable SJIS encoding or whatever
(sorry, been a year or so since I switched to HexChat!)

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RichardG867 · 2014-02-13 13:03

All comments are wrong. I have a friend who goes there, they use
ISO-2022-JP, which is only supported by XChat. You can also use mIRC
6.35 or below, since 7.0 dropped support for codepages in favor of
Unicode.

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sailingonward · 2014-02-15 13:46

ISO-2022-JP in XChat 2 worked, but please note that I had to change
the font to "MS Gothic" in addition to changing the character set.

I learned that I had to change the font from reading a different IRC
forum. It's a shame it's not clear what to do. Maybe in Japan they
have Japanese clients that display the text fine by default.

Anyway thanks for your help.