More information about BitchX is available at <http://www.bitchx.com/>.

Non-default Character Set Support
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As of version 1.0c18-5, there should be no more problems with support for
any character set, if your terminal is set up correctly.  The exception (by
default) is 'xbitchx', which uses a font that does not contain most accent
characters.  If you want to see accents in xbitchx, change /etc/bitchx/xfont
to a more appropriate font for your language.

Notes
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1.0c18-5:
  - The default download directory for DCC received files is now
    ~/dcc instead of ~.  You need to create that directory or change
    the value of DCC_DLDIR in order to receive files.

1.0c15-1:
  - Versions of this package before 75p1-1 announced themselves as
    BitchX+Deb1an, and named save files accordingly.  Until now,
    these old config files would be automatically detected and renamed.
    Now, if you want to use your old settings, you'll have to rename the
    files by hand.
  - GTK BitchX is experimental; please don't file release-critical bugs on
    it.  Among the bugs I noticed in this version - if you are not connected
    to a server, it may reject keyboard input.  Give a valid server on the
    command line.
  - Format variables are saved to ~/.BitchX/BitchX.formats, instead of
    ~/.BitchX/BitchX.sav.  This file is not automatically loaded at startup,
    because of the potential for accidentally saving an unusable format
    or one which causes the client to crash, and then being unable to
    start the client.  If you know what you're doing, you can add
    "load BitchX.formats" to .bitchxrc or /etc/bitchx/bxglobal.