Synopsis: set translation [<character set>] Description: This setting defines the character set for the client to use for text input and display. The client default is ASCII, a 7-bit set that is available on nearly every known platform and terminal emulation. ASCII is a subset of the 8-bit Latin-1 character set, which is among the most widely used character sets in the world. It is standard under numerous computing environments, including the MIT X Window System, MS Windows, AmigaDOS, as well as modern ANSI terminals, such as Digital's VT series and MS Kermit. Not all environments support, or are conducive to, this default. Some users must use dated equipment that cannot display 8-bit clean text, while others use a written language that is not consistent with the Western-oriented Latin-1 set. IrcII-EPIC supports numerous specialized character sets: Character Set Bit Description cp437 8 Old IBM PC (MS DOS), Atari ST cp850 8 New IBM PC (PC DOS), IBM PS/2 dec_mcs 8 DEC Multinational Character Set; VAX/VMS, | DEC 8-bit terminals (vt320, etc.); Latin_1 | generally preferred dg_mcs 8 Data General Multinational Character Set hp_mcs 8 Hewlett-Packard Extended Roman 8 latin_1 8 ISO 8859/1; defacto standard macintosh 8 Apple Macintosh next 8 NeXT, NeXTStep environments ascii 7 American, ANSI ASCII, ISO Reg.006; this is | the only one hardcoded into the client, | should work if all else fails; DEFAULT danish 7 Norwegian and Danish dutch 7 Dutch finnish 7 Finnish french 7 French, ISO Reg.025 french_canadian 7 French in Canada german 7 German, ISO Reg.025 irv 7 International Reference Version, ISO Reg.002; | for use in strict ISO 646 environments italian 7 Italian, ISO Reg.015 jis 7 Japanese, JIS ASCII, ISO Reg.014; Japanese | ASCII hybrid norwegian_1 7 Norwegian, ISO Reg.060 (version 1) norwegian_2 7 Norwegian, ISO Reg.061 (version 2) portugese 7 Portugese, ISO Reg.016 portugese_com 7 Portugese on DEC terminals spanish 7 Spanish, ISO Reg.017 spanish_com 7 Spanish on DEC terminals swedish 7 Swedish, ISO Reg.010 swedish_names 7 Swedish, ISO Reg.011 (for names) swedish_names_com 7 Sewdish on DEC terminals (for names) swiss 7 Swiss united_kingdom 7 United Kingdom, ISO Reg.004 united_kingdom_com 7 United Kingdom on DEC and HP terminals Only support for ASCII is hardcoded into the client. The remaining character sets are defined in external files in the client's library. These are usually installed with the client, though not always. If all else fails, ASCII is generic enough to suffice in most environments. See Also: digraph(4); set(4) eight_bit_characters Other Notes: The ircII translation tables are maintained by tomten@solace.hsh.se (Tomten on irc).