set translation
Removed setting
The former setting used this syntax:
/set translation <character-translation-table>
It selected a byte translation table between the client's Latin-1 character representation and terminal-specific character sets. Historical tables included eight-bit sets such as CP437, CP850, MACINTOSH, and DEC_MCS, and seven-bit national replacement sets such as DANISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, and UNITED_KINGDOM.
EPIC6 does not register translation as a setting or provide that table-selection interface. There is no supported table value or default under this name. The old assumption that the client internally uses Latin-1 does not describe its current UTF-8 conversion paths.
Without script-provided handling of unknown settings, /set translation CP437 reports No such variable "TRANSLATION". Remove obsolete assignments from startup scripts. A script accepting this name would define its own behavior rather than restore the former byte tables.
Current encoding controls
Use encoding to describe terminal, script, server, or target encodings. This uses the system's iconv-compatible conversion support and UTF-8 internally, rather than the old fixed translation-table names. Supported encoding names depend on the local conversion library; historical translation names are not guaranteed to be accepted or equivalent.
For a terminal actually configured to use UTF-8, the console rule can be set explicitly:
/encoding console UTF-8
The console rule describes the bytes typed and displayed by your terminal. Remote message and script encodings have separate rules; changing the console rule does not describe every server or correspondent. Prefer a correct locale and rules matching the actual encoding rather than an arbitrary table intended to change a character's appearance.
History
set translation was introduced before ircII2.2, removed in EPIC4pre0.009, and reintroduced in EPIC4-1.1.1. That historical interface is absent from EPIC6.
Source references
source/vars.c: current setting registration omitstranslationand handles unknown-variable errors.source/recode.c:encoding, console/script/network rules, UTF-8 conversions, and validation against the local iconv implementation.