Nettalk (IRC client)
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Nettalk is a free
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

 and opensource IRC Client for Windows. Because Nettalk's user interface focuses, in contrast to many other Windows IRC clients, for less experienced IRC users, it is quick to learn. It is a full-fledged IRC client with UTF-8
UTF-8
UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...

 and DCC
Direct Client-to-Client
Direct Client-to-Client is an IRC-related sub-protocol enabling peers to interconnect using an IRC server for handshaking in order to exchange files or perform non-relayed chats. Once established, a typical DCC session runs independently from the IRC server. Originally designed to be used with...

 file transfer support. Available languages for the user interface are Dutch, Chinese, German, English, Spanish, Russian, and Hungarian.

It can manage multiple connections, the preferences of which are stored individually. This includes NickServ identities and visited channels. Nettalk completes commands, nicks and parameters automatically. Command-syntax for typed in commands are displayed
IntelliSense
IntelliSense is Microsoft's implementation of autocompletion, best known for its use in the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment...

 to the user like in modern software development environments. Commands can be searched for by their function, as well as by name. Also, there is the ability to show private messages in full-screen applications, and a spellchecker for German and English. Nettalk supports mouse gestures since version 6.5.

The Script function of nettalk uses a BASIC dialect, which is supported by syntax highlighting.

Reception

In its review of Nettalk 6.6.5, NetzWelt.de stated, "the graphical interface makes it easy to get started with this powerful ... software".

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