The allowance of ascii characters in channel names.

This policy allows the insertion of the following statement to the ChatNet Channel Naming Policy: "Special characters when pertaining to other languages and alphabets outside of the English language are allowed in channel names and supported by the ChatNet Channel Naming Policy.

" Technical Version --

ChatNet Channel Naming Policy: The standard table for channel names is ASCII - ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) - http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html.

Channel names may consist: [US-ASCII]

* Special characters and numbers (hex: 21 to 3F (note: not 20 (SPACE))) !, ", #, $, %, ..., 1, 2, 3, ...

* Upper Case Letters (hex: 40 to 5F) @, A, B, C, ..., X, Y, Z, [, \, ], ^, _

* Lower Case Letters (hex: 60 to 7E (note: not 7F (DEL))) `, a, b, c, ..., x, y, z, {, |, }, ~ [ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Entities]

* Upper Case Latin-1 Letters (hex: C0 to DF) À, Á, Ã, ..., Ü, Ý, Þ, ß

* Lower Case Latin-1 Letters (hex: E0 to FF) à, á, â, ..., ü, ý, þ, ÿ Channel names may not consist: [US-ASCII]

* Control Characters (hex: 00 to 1F)

* Hex 20 (SPACE) * Hex 7F (DEL) [Extended Control Characters]

* Microsoft Windows Latin-1 Added Characters and non-used (hex: 80 to 9F) [ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Entities]

* Special Characters (hex: A0 to BF) [IRC color codes] * Don't know the hex numbers for those - if anyone does, please tell me :) Channel names may not start with any non-alphanumeric characters. This only allows "a" - "z", "A" - "Z", and "0" - "9" to start a channel name.

Note: This policy is only for non-K9 registered channels, as K9 doesnt see ascii characters.

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