Plouf's Java IRC (PJIRC) is a web-based open-source

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that is written in

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. Any

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that supports the

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, or an alternative Java interpreter, can use the

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. Many

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s have a public installation of the applet for their network. Philippe Detournay, the initial and main contributor, has stopped working on the project since 2005. However, the website forum is still frequently used and moderated by the administrators.

Features

Unlike many other

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IRC clients, PJIRC supports DCC connections, and can be run in application mode, without the need of either

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or browser, though still requiring some form of

. Text highlighting, UTF-8 encoding, nickname autocompletion, auto-linking of nicknames, channel names and URLs, customization through the use of plug-ins, limited scripting using

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, and GUI aesthetic customization are supported. PJIRC can be embedded on a website as a general purpose IRC client, or with optional customization to connect to a particular server and channel, with certain specified commands permitted to users. Language support uses external language files, and includes Albanian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.Downloads:Translations
. pjirc.com. Retrieved 2011-07-12.

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