[IRC-DEV] NAMES showing +ov at a time problem

[Ruben Cardenal]

Hi there,

  I'm a member of Irc-Hispano developers team, and we are having a 
problematic issue. We have modified m_names() function so now the NAMES 
reply marks to voiced and opped users at a time with "@+nick" instead of 
"@nick".

  This implementation seems to work properly with mIRC. But... for this 
to work with BitchX, as this client uses WHO reply to fill its nickname 
list for a channel, we had to modify it too. No problem with this, now 
BitchX recognizes properly all modes. X-Chat works well too.

  The problem comes with kvirc and ksirc. These two clients get confused 
when parsing those two modes, and have problems to display them and even 
recognizing users as connected. I suppose that many other clients may 
have potential problems with this.

  Even if changing the way of showing nicks in names from "@+nick" to 
"+ at nick", new problems appear in clients such as mIRC. We think that if 
all major networks make the same change in the way that NAMES shows 
voiced and opped users at a time, the clients programmers will have it 
in mind and re-code their clients so this new feature will be parsed 
properly.

  We'd like this feature to be disscused and implemented (if found 
usefull) in this list, to be implemented in Undernet too.

  Bests Regards.