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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. |