i18n: Mangles Unicode (non-Latin-1 I suppose) characters

[mcepl]

29 is nice problem to have, but I think more urgent (particularly for users like me who try to use Firesea IRC in Czech) is that when I enter to the phone:

kasal, opalka: někdo dnes na oběd k Dobré myšlence? I get in xchat (on Linux, where I am 100% certain UTF-8 encoding in IRC works perfectly) 

[nickdesaulniers]

If I paste někdo dnes na oběd k Dobré myšlence? into Firesea IRC, it's logged correctly, but not transferred correctly. Hopefully this isn't an underlying bug in node-irc. I get a warning in Colloquy of an "incomplete encoding" and it prints nkdo dnes na obd k Dobré myalence? in Colloquy.

[nickdesaulniers]

This is not an issue with the underlying node-irc library.

irc = require 'irc'
client = new irc.Client 'irc.mozilla.org', 'testcase',
  autoConnect: false

client.connect ->
  client.join '#testclient', ->
    client.say '#testclient', 'někdo dnes na oběd k Dobré myšlence?'
    client.disconnect()

^ works.

[nickdesaulniers]

If I log the string immediately before calling tcpSocketInstance.send, it's fine. On the receiving end, it's not.

[nickdesaulniers]

Possibly related

[nickdesaulniers]

Possible solutions:

• Node's string decoder
• Array Buffers and conversion
• StringView shim