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patch #8062: Better hash function for the nick colors

Submitter:  Antoine Pietri <seirl>
Submitted:  Thu 30 May 2013 01:56:27 PM UTC
Votes: 100
 
Category:  irc plugin Priority:  5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  flashcode Open/Closed:  Closed
IRC nick:  seirl
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Sun 02 Jun 2013 09:06:20 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Done, with a new option: irc.look.nick_color_hash, values: sum (default) or djb2.

Sebastien Helleu <flashcode>
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Thu 30 May 2013 01:56:27 PM UTC, original submission:  

Currently the hash function used to color nicks in the IRC plugin is a simple sum of every unicode character of the colored nick.
This causes some problems :

  • Two nicks that are identical except some permutated letters (alice and ailce) will display identically;
  • Speaking more generally, similar nicks (alice and alidd), instead of being visually distinguished by the colors, are more likely to appear identically and being confused more easily.


Using a hash function with a better randomized repartition (in this case, the djb2 algorithm) is a way of solving this problem.

Antoine Pietri <seirl>

 

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file #28211:  irc-nick.c.patch added by seirl (234B - text/x-patch - Patch for src/plugins/irc/irc-nick.c, updated with the modified djb2 hash of src/core/wee-hashtable.c:89)
file #28210:  irc-nick.c.patch added by seirl (183B - text/x-patch - Patch for src/plugins/irc/irc-nick.c)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2013-10-06 flashcode Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2013-06-02 flashcode StatusNone Done
        Assigned toNone flashcode
    2013-05-30 seirl Carbon-Copy- Added seirl
    2013-05-30 seirl Attached File- Added irc-nick.c.patch, #28211
    2013-05-30 seirl Attached File- Added irc-nick.c.patch, #28210

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