BitchX
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BitchX /ˈbɪtʃɛks/ is a free IRC client[1] that has been regarded as the most popular ircII-based IRC client.[2] The initial implementation, written by "Trench" and "HappyCrappy", was a script for the IrcII chat client.[2] It was converted to a program in its own right by panasync (Colten Edwards). BitchX 1.1 final was released in 2004. It is written in C and is a TUI application utilizing ncurses. GTK+ toolkit support has been dropped. It works on all Unix-like operating systems, and is distributed under a BSD license. It was originally based on ircII-EPIC,[2] and eventually it was merged into the EPIC IRC client. It supports IPv6,[3] multiple servers and SSL, and a subset of UTF-8 (characters contained in ISO-8859-1) with an unofficial patch.[4]
Developer(s) | Colten Edwards (panasync) and Kevin Easton (caf) |
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Stable release | |
Preview release | BitchX-1.3 (January 1, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-01-01)) [±] |
Repository | |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Windows, OS X |
Type | IRC client |
License | BSD-3-Clause GNU General Public License |
Website | bitchx |
On several occasions, BitchX has been noted to be a popular IRC client for Unix-like systems.[1][5][6][7][8][9]
The latest official release is version 1.2.
BitchX does not yet support Unicode.[10]