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>IRC is IMHO an example of a good text-based protocol design Though it would have been nice if there was an actual text encoding specification. Right now, vari
by beefhash 9y ago
>IRC is IMHO an example of a good text-based protocol design
Though it would have been nice if there was an actual text encoding specification. Right now, various networks, especially in Asia, have all kinds of funny encodings going on. Meanwhile in US and European contexts, UTF-8 isn't standardized, so you have to expect other encodings as well.