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Usage: **SET** **TRANSLATION** <character translation table>

The TRANSLATION variable defines a character translation table.  By default,
ircII assumes that all text processed over the network is in the ISO 8859/1
map, also known as Latin-1.  This is identical to standard ASCII, except that
it is extended with additional characters in the range 128-255.  Many
environments by default use the Latin-1 map, such as X Windows, MS Windows,
AmigaDOS, and modern ANSI terminals including Digital VT200, VT300, VT400
series and MS-Kermit.  However, many older environments use non-standard
extensions to ASCII, and yet others use 7-bit national replacement sets.

Some available settings for the TRANSLATION variable:

^             8-bit sets:                                                           ^
|  HP_MCS          |Hewlett Packard Extended Roman 8.   |
|  MACINTOSH       |Apple Macintosh computers and boat anchors.   |
|  CP437           |Old IBM PC, compatibles and Atari ST.   |
|  CP850           |New IBM PC compatibles and IBM PS/2.   |
|  DEC_MCS         |DEC Multinational Character Set. VAX/VMS.  VT320's and other 8-bit Digital terminals use this set by default, but I recommend changing to Latin-1 in the terminal Set-Up.   |
|  DG_MCS          |Data General Multinational Character Set.   |
|  NEXT            |NeXT.   |

^          7-bit sets:                            ^
|   ASCII              | ANSI ASCII, ISO Reg. 006.  For American terminals in 7-bit environments.  Default.       |
|   DANISH             | Norwegian/Danish.       |
|   DUTCH              | Dutch.       |
|   FINNISH            | Finnish.       |
|   FRENCH             | ISO French, ISO Reg. 025.       |
|   FRENCH_CANADIAN    | French in Canada.       |
|   GERMAN             | ISO German, ISO Reg. 021.       |
|   IRV                | International Reference Version, ISO Reg. 002.  For use pedantic in ISO 646 environments.       |
|   ITALIAN            | ISO Italian, ISO Reg. 015.       |
|   JIS                | JIS ASCII, ISO Reg. 014.  Japanese ASCII hybrid.       |
|   NORWEGIAN_1        | ISO Norwegian, Version 1, ISO Reg. 060.       |
|   NORWEGIAN_2        | ISO Norwegian, Version 2, ISO Reg. 061.       |
|   POLISH             | Converts windows codepage 1250 to ISO-8859-2       |
|   POLISH_NOPL        | Converts both cp1250 and iso8859-2 to latin equivalents       |
|    PORTUGUESE          |ISO Portuguese, ISO Reg. 016.       |
|    PORTUGUESE_COM      |Portuguese on Digital terminals.       |
|    RUSSIAN             |Russian.       |
|    RUSSIAN_ALT         |Alternative Russian.       |
|    RUSSIAN_WIN         |Russian with Windows.       |
|    SPANISH             |ISO Spanish, ISO Reg. 017.       |
|    SWEDISH             |ISO Swedish, ISO Reg. 010.       |
|    SWEDISH_NAMES       |ISO Swedish for Names, ISO Reg. 011.       |
|    SWEDISH_NAMES_COM   |Swedish.  Digital, Hewlett Packard.       |
|    SWISS               |Swiss.       |
|    UNITED_KINGDOM      |ISO United Kingdom, ISO Reg. 004.       |
|    UNITED_KINGDOM_COM  |United Kingdom on DEC and HP terminals.       |

======History:======
[[set]] __TRANSLATION__ was introduced before ircII2.2. \\
[[set]] __TRANSLATION__ was removed in EPIC4pre0.009. \\
[[set]] __TRANSLATION__ was reintroduced in EPIC4-1.1.1.