Subject: Re: bug#8744: Also use detect-coding-string?

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 10:33:14 -0300

> The rcirc-decode-coding-system is by default set to 'utf-8, which is
> (obviously a valid coding system), so the test, if i understand
> correctly, would always be true.

> My idea is that the client should try to detect automatically the
> encoding used for each message received, using as first choices the
> encodings set by the user. That's what all the major IRC clients do (like
> irssi and weechat). 

IIUC that's exactly what you'll get if you set
rcirc-decode-coding-system to `undecided'.

        Stefan