daemoness

> This PR will likely be impacted by #8853 Should I take this to mean that the changes proposed in #8853 will likely be merged before this PR?

Oops, I seem to have sniped extban `g` from under you. :grin: [progval suggested `w`](https://github.com/solanum-ircd/solanum/issues/213#issuecomment-898719653); IMO that's probably the best alternative. It might also be a good idea to change...

There may be room for improvement here without resorting to any of the above. The current logic for message splitting appears to live in [`Client.State.Network.utf8ChunksOf`](https://github.com/glguy/irc-core/blob/4196f3cc1281407c1fe57077b9c7e06ad51e3c1f/src/Client/State/Network.hs#L267). AIUI it iterates over the...

If there's interest from the maintainers, I could look into integrating ec4rs into zed (as a plugin? Please advise).

This behavior might be Mosh's fault due to a disagreement between the Mosh client and server on the width of the, uh, zero-width space. See https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/234#issuecomment-413336927. Does this still occur...

This problem came up as part of a larger discussion about the possibility of Libera.Chat supporting [bot mode](https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/bot-mode), and how it's not ideal to give clients [another reason](https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/bot-mode#the-who-bot-flag) to need...

Stalled for now due to concerns about potentially leaving the client in an inconsistent state. Further testing needed.