Document how to address a nick with @ character

fix #3047
2015-04-21 02:55:39 +02:00
parent e46c3c004d
commit d79850f984
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@@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ IRC nicknames are case-insensitive, this means that the nicknames toto,
 Toto, tOtO and TOTO all represent the same IRC user.  This means you can
 talk to the user toto, and this will work.

+Also note that some IRC nicknames may contain characters that are not
+allowed in the local part of a JID (for example '@').  If you need to send a
+message to a nick containing such a character, you have to use a jid like
+`%irc.example.com@biboumi.example.com/AnnoyingNickn@me`, because the JID
+`AnnoyingNickn@me!irc.example.com@biboumi.example.com` would not work.
+
 Examples:

  `#foo%irc.example.com@biboumi.example.com` is the #foo IRC channel, on the