Teleirc highlight identical usernames on IRC

[FruitieX]

If a user wants to use the same username on both Telegram and IRC, then teleirc will cause a IRC highlight for that user each time they say something on Telegram.

Not sure there's much we can do about this. Any ideas?

[ImTheDeveloper]

Obviously this is an issue and can happen, but I think its going to come down to how aggressive someone has set their highlighting on the IRC client.

There's the option of appending additional text to tg relayed messages e.g.:
tg-chris - yes i agree

The rules in the irc client can then be adjusted to ignore these? I think it would come down to how well the client can implement rules. mIrc would be capable but xchat maybe not.

[FruitieX]

Yes, another idea would be to prepend the '@' sign familiar from Telegram, it should be easier for clients to write a regex ignoring this case.

[Mikaela]

I think people usually highlight on *nick*.

Yes, another idea would be to prepend the '@' sign familiar from Telegram, it should be easier for clients to write a regex ignoring this case.

This could be a bad idea as some people who aren't so familiar with IRC think that they must prefix nicks with @ in order for the highlight to happen sometimes even if people aren't ops.

[FruitieX]

Hmm you're right, it might just add confusion

[Mikaela]

I think there was talk about adding invisible spaces to the relayed username and I think I said that some clients might still highlight it, but it might be the best way to do it.

[Mikaela]

Workaround: set nick format to something like -%username% as generally IRC clients think that as a different nick and nicks cannot begin with -.