founder mode set.
18. UTF-8 requirement checkings for all specifications, when strings
- are sent.
+ are sent. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
to be used along with the nicknames to identify specific users when sending
messages. This feature of SILC makes IRC style nickname-wars obsolete as
no one owns their nickname; there can always be someone else with the same
-nickname. The maximum length of nickname is 128 characters.
+nickname. The maximum length of nickname is 128 bytes.
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Channel names are unique although the real uniqueness comes from 64 bit
Channel ID. However, channel names are still unique and no two global
channels with same name may exist. The Channel name is a string of
-maximum length of 256 characters. Channel names MUST NOT contain any
+maximum length of 256 bytes. Channel names MUST NOT contain any
spaces (` '), any non-printable ASCII characters, commas (`,') and
wildcard characters.