Hoosgot

http://she.geek.nz/archives/513-lazyweb-icons,-irssi-and-unicode.html asks Hoosgot,

Dear lazyweb! The moodle development chat has finally moved to Jabber from Skype, which means that I can mash it into irssi using bitlbee. However there’s one last thing that stands out as a FIXME! The developers are all used to Skype’s icon set (h) and (ninja) and (y) and so on and those who have graphical clients (most of them) have managed to find Skype icon packs. Which means that a lot of the time, I’m left seeing these series of strings. So, I was wondering, is there a way (an irssi plugin, perhaps) to do matching on other people’s input (preferably restricted to a defined set of channels) that converts from a set of supported characters into their unicode …

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