UTF-8 support

[cpkio]

Are there any plans for Unicode support?

[uhlin]

My first thought was to reply it already has?
Swirc can handle UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15.
If you aren't on Windows you can install all 3 encodings for your locale and set 'LC_ALL' to for example 'sv_SE.UTF-8'.

[cpkio]

I'm on Windows with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 and chcp 65001 on, but still get gibberish on russian (libera.chat:6697#kde_ru):

mIRC shows cyrillics fine on the same port.

My terminal emulator handles UTF-8 just fine in other cases (like gemini:// protocol Amfora app)…

[uhlin]

Ok. I will look into this.

[uhlin]

This will be fixed in 3.3.2 which is close. One however needs to enable the option Use Unicode UTF-8 worldwide language support:

I rebuilt the PDC library using UTF8=Y which makes PDCurses ignore the system locale. So for Windows computers UTF-8 is now forced.

I will close this issue in the next commit with a small modification to the printtext module that also was essential.