Encodings per buddy for IRC

[Mark Doliner]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:11:18 +0200, Martin Ott wrote
> While reading the recent "Unicode characters" thread, it flashed to 
> me that often I would need different encodings for separate channels 
> on one server (using one nick). That way there have been formed out 
> certain channels, where I need one encoding or another. Plus there 
> are certain group of irc nicks, where one charset is needed or another.

So, uh, out of curiosity, is there any reason these channels aren't using
UTF-8?  If everyone used UTF-8 for everything you wouldn't be having this
problem, right?

-Mark