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type="topic" style="screen"
id="account-irc">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="irc-manage#manage"/>
<desc>Additional information necessary for connecting to IRC networks.</desc>
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<credit type="author">
<name>Shaun McCance</name>
<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
</credit>
<license>
<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
</license>
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<title>IRC account details</title>
<p>IRC accounts require different information than many other types of
accounts. To create an IRC account, you must specify at least an IRC
network and a nickname. This page details the information you can
provide for an IRC account.</p>
<note style="info package">
<p>You must have the <sys>telepathy-idle</sys> package installed to use IRC
in <app>Empathy</app>.</p>
</note>
<terms>
<item>
<title><gui>Network</gui></title>
<p>IRC is an open system that allows people to run separate IRC
networks. Each network is distinct and has its own users and
chat rooms. <app>Empathy</app> lists the most popular networks
in the <gui>Network</gui> drop-down list. You can add additional
networks. See <link xref="#networks"/> below.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title><gui>Nickname</gui></title>
<p>Your nickname is your unique name on the IRC network. Only one
person on a network may use a given nickname. If you get an error
message that says <link xref="prob-conn-name" role="error-msg"/>
you will need to change your nickname.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title><gui>Password</gui></title>
<p>Some servers, particularly those on private networks, require
a password to connect. If you are authorized to use the network,
the network administrators should provide you with a password.</p>
<note>
<title>NickServ Passwords</title>
<p>On some networks, nicknames can be registered using a service
known as NickServ. <app>Empathy</app> does not directly support
nickname passwords. On some networks, including the popular
freenode network, server passwords are automatically forwarded
to NickServ, allowing you to set this field to identify yourself
with NickServ. See <link xref="irc-nick-password"/> for more
details.</p>
</note>
</item>
<item>
<title><gui>Real name</gui></title>
<p>You can provide your real name in addition to your nickname. Other
users will be able to see this when they view your information.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title><gui>Quit message</gui></title>
<p>When you go offline, a quit message is sent to all the chat rooms
you’re in and to all the users you’re having a private conversation
with. Use this field to provide a custom quit message.</p>
</item>
</terms>
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<section id="networks">
<info>
<title type="link">IRC Networks</title>
</info>
<title>Networks</title>
<p><app>Empathy</app> includes a list of popular IRC networks. If you
wish to another IRC network, you can add it to the list. You can also
modify networks and remove them from the list.</p>
<list>
<item><p>To add a network to the list, click <media type="image"
mime="image/png" src="figures/gtk-add.png" width="16"
height="16">Add</media>.</p></item>
<item><p>To modify a network in the list, select the network and click
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/gtk-edit.png" width="16"
height="16">Edit</media>.</p></item>
<item><p>To remove a network from the list, select the network and
click <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/gtk-remove.png"
width="16" height="16">Remove</media>.</p></item>
</list>
<p>When adding or modifying a network, you can enter the following
information:</p>
<terms>
<item>
<title><gui>Network</gui></title>
<p>This is the name of the network as you want it to appear in
the list of networks.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title><gui>Charset</gui></title>
<p>This specifies the character encoding that is typically used on
this network. A character encoding is a specific way of recording
characters internally in a computer. There are many character
encodings, and you need to use the same character encoding as other
users to see their messages correctly.</p>
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<p>By default, <app>Empathy</app> uses UTF-8, a modern character
encoding that can handle text from most of the world's languages.
Another common encoding for English and some other Western languages
is ISO-8859-1.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title><gui>Servers</gui></title>
<p>An IRC network may have many servers you can connect to. When
you are connected to a server on a particular network, you can
communicate with all users on all other servers on that network.
You can add and remove servers for this network using the
<gui>Add</gui> and <gui>Remove</gui> buttons.</p>
<p>When a server is selected, click the field under <gui>Server</gui>
or <gui>Port</gui> to edit it. Alternatively, use the left and right
arrow keys to focus the field, and press the space bar to begin
editing.</p>
<p>Select the check box in the <gui>SSL</gui> column to encrypt
all communication with a server. Note that this does not prevent
other users on the network from seeing what you write on public
chat rooms.</p>
</item>
</terms>
</section>
</page>
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