unicode or not, dsirc is a fairly decent, easy to setup irc client. for those who
don't want to type in the same window they receive messages in, here is a solution
(note that it works mostly for single-channel sessions, which is what i normally do):

% cat $home/bin/rc/irc
#!/bin/rc
# start a new window for dsirc
# text, accept irc input in the
# current window

bind '#|' /tmp
window -m dsirc < /tmp/data
cat > /tmp/data1
%

this works reasonably well for me, but on the other hand my irc needs are not that
complicated :)

andrey

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Russ Cox wrote:

> I didn't do anything with Unicode when I ported Perl,
> but it's hard to break the basics.
>
> It's probably the client not translating from Latin1 to UTF8.
> Everything on IRC is in Latin1, I think.
>
> g% perl -e 'print "☺\n"'
> ☺
> g%
>