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h1. Tips

h2. Unicode

If you ever experience an issue with displaying unicode characters (which is not just an encoding issue), try type:

<pre>/setoptions Messages UseDrawText True</pre>

This will enable a different method for drawing messages.

To disable, type:

<pre>/setoptions Messages UseDrawText False</pre>

h2. Auth before joining a channel

If you need to be authed with nickserv before joining a channel, you can use the [[/sleep]] (or [[/timer]]) command in your serverlist "Run these commands on connect" field:

<pre>
/msg nickserv identify <password>
/sleep 3 /join #channel1,#channel2
</pre>

/sleep 3, means wait 3 seconds before running the following command.
_A dedicated field in the serverlist for this is planned as well as [[http://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/sasl-3.1.html|SASL]] support which makes this a non issue._