
INTRODUCTION

Welcome to savIRC. savIRC is a cross-platform IRC Client 
written in Tcl/Tk. It was originally created by Saverio 
Castellano. Casey Ackels and Sander van Grieken have since 
picked up the development.


FEATURES

* Ability to use different language files. 

* A Language Editor, for ease of editing language files.

* UTF-8 encoding. Everything is encoded to the UTF-8 encoding 
  by default. If you wish to change this, at this time you must 
  open up the default.ini file, and go to the me(encoding) variable, 
  and change utf-8 to the desired encoding.

* Ability to display halfop (%) status in the channel, along 
  with /halfop, /dehalfop commands

* Ability to display Server Notices (snotices) in the same places 
  as other notices are, as defined by you.

* Most windows are resizable now.

* Menu's highlighting is better, before it was barely readable.

* Ability to colorize one word, then return to normal color. 

* Added /names, /links and /topic commands


BUGS

The following list are known issues, but present in this release :

* Right now there is no easy way to switch to a different 
  language file (there's only an english one at this time). 
  There's no language selection option in the GUI, but if you have 
  created your own, you can change it in the default.ini file. 
  Open it up and go to the me(lang) variable. 
  Change it to the desired language file. Language files must 
  be in this format (en_en), so if your language is Dutch, 
  and you live in The Netherlands, you would set; nl_nl.
  If your language was english and you lived in the UK, you 
  would set; en_uk.

  The first value is your language, the second is your country.

* The Sound Manager is barely functional and unsupported. We want
  to move this out of the savIRC package and provide it as a 
  separate script.

* System Tray support is at best flaky

For the most up to date list of pending bugs, please go to 
http://bugs.savirc.com


REPORTING BUGS

If you find a bug, and we hope you don't, but if you do, we kindly ask 
that you report it at http://bugs.savirc.com


MISSING A FEATURE

If there is a feature that you wish was in savIRC, please post it to 
the savirc.com forums under Wish List.
