Using MIRC or any other IRC software to communicate

[techie]

Can anybody comment on the following:

I used to use my MIRC to communicate with others in Chinese (the little I know). Nonetheless I changed computers and lost server addresses where I could go to to chat in chinese.

Also, even though I already found some sites, the MIRC software will not allow me to read/write with chinese characters, even if I paste from other programs such as Wenlin, NJStar and simply the simplified characters from windows XP

Anybody has any experience with this? Also any recommendations of good server addresses.

Thanks.

[cometrue]

you'd better download a chat tool called OICQ from site below:

www.tencent.com

http://www.tencent.com/english/

that's a chinese based chat tool more likes ICQ, but market share is stronger than any other tools in china. almost all the users r native chinese speaker, i think it sould be helpful for your mandarin skill.

[niubi]

techie, the winXP chinese support works in mIRC. i use it. the irc server group in china that i frequent is irc.263.net

i think there is some little tweak in the mIRC options under winXP to get the chinese support to work correctly. i don't remember exactly what it is, but looking through my mIRC options that under 'mIRC option:IRC:Messages' that SJIS/JIS conversion, process ANSI codes, and multibyte characters are unchecked.

as a side note, njstar will not work properly with mIRC under the winXP OS. njstar in my experience is not friendly to winXP.

[techie]

niubi,

thanks for the attempt.

I tried every possible combination. In my mirc the messages for sjic were unchecked. I checked them and then afterwards tried them by unchecking them. It did not work either way. Otherwise my mirc is able to go there and it works just fine except for the read/write of chinese.

I have a feeling it might be some sort of "script" that is built into yours. Which version are you using?

I am using mirc 6.02. Or perhaps we can both be in one of the chat rooms when you are ready and we can try it or exchange programs or let me know where you got your version.

Thanks again. This is a great group.

[roddy]

Thanks again. This is a great group

We know

Welcome to the board

Roddy

[niubi]

OK, i have been reminded what the tweak is. in mIRC type 'alt+V'. in my personal set up i have selected 'fixedsys' as my font and my script as 'chinese_gb2312', but i suppose you could select some other font that would give you possibility to select chinese_gb2312 or big5. also i do not have the box 'set as default channel font' checked.

[squall_leonhart]

Sorry, for resurrecting this thread, im just posting a followup for others who are after an answer to this

No scripts are required, you just need to enable a few options.

In Tools > Options > Message, Enable both multibyte options, and Font linking.

In View > Font, Set UTF-8 to display and encode.

you should now be able to send and recieve, chinese, japanese, and any other symbolistic based script on mirc.

[dsrguru]

techie, if you are in fact a techie, can I assume you have some familiarity with the command-line (either the *nix command-line via Cygwin or even MS-DOS)? If that's a bad assumption, my post won't be very useful to you, so feel free to skip it. With that out of the way, I use irssi, a console IRC program that many claim is the best IRC client available. It's free (in both the libre and gratis senses), and it supports Unicode, meaning you can use it for Chinese as long as your terminal emulator supports Unicode.

Edit: woah this is an old thread; I totally missed that.