Possibility to specify an encoding

[skuzzle]

Hi,

I was trying to use this IRC lib because it seems to be the only one which is accessible through maven central and also seemed to be well designed. Now I stumbled on a problem: The default SocketChannelConnection always uses the system's default encoding. As far as I have researched the framework offers no easy way of exchanging the connection implementation without completely reimplementing the IRCApi interface.

[migzai]

You can change the default encoding anytime at run-time. Use System.setProperty("file.encoding", "your_desired_charset");

[skuzzle]

That's true, but maybe changing the default encoding is too invasive for the remaining parts of my application (besides that, it's bad practice relying on the default encoding because this makes the application highly platform dependent, and, in this case, IRC server dependent)

[anormal81]

System.setProperty("file.encoding", "your_desired_charset"); ist not a solution for us. Some of our servers in european region operate with an iso8859-1 code page which is required. Sending messages with umlauts to an UTF-8 IRC server results in characters that can not be displayed. Each IRC client I've seen so far allows the specification of the encoding. Please add this as setting in IServerParamters.

[migzai]

Alright will work on that.