[Erc-discuss] Re: erc-encoding-coding-alist matching problems

[Michael Olson]

address@hidden (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Channel names in `erc-encoding-coding-alist' should be matched
> case-insensitively (or names should be canonicalized).
>
> I was on the #FooBar channel and had a ("#FooBar" . latin-1) entry in
> erc-encoding-coding-alist. On receiving text #FooBar was used as the
> target name, but on sending #foobar was used (and thus didn't match).
> I didn't know that the text I sent looked weird (utf-8) to other
> people until they told me (since the text i received looked just
> fine).
>
> Btw, according to the doc the coding alist is supposed to use
> regexps--"Alist of target regexp and coding-system pairs to use"--but
> the code uses `assoc'. This has been broken for 3 years.

Added to the release goals for ERC 5.1.3.

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