From d79850f984cb5aa9579ebc5f5e53696fc7872eb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florent Le Coz Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 02:54:47 +0200 Subject: Document how to address a nick with @ character fix #3047 --- doc/biboumi.1.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/biboumi.1.md b/doc/biboumi.1.md index 3fd5a25..b69dede 100644 --- a/doc/biboumi.1.md +++ b/doc/biboumi.1.md @@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ IRC nicknames are case-insensitive, this means that the nicknames toto, Toto, tOtO and TOTO all represent the same IRC user. This means you can talk to the user toto, and this will work. +Also note that some IRC nicknames may contain characters that are not +allowed in the local part of a JID (for example '@'). If you need to send a +message to a nick containing such a character, you have to use a jid like +`%irc.example.com@biboumi.example.com/AnnoyingNickn@me`, because the JID +`AnnoyingNickn@me!irc.example.com@biboumi.example.com` would not work. + Examples: `#foo%irc.example.com@biboumi.example.com` is the #foo IRC channel, on the -- cgit v1.2.3