(key, value) = line.strip().split(' ', 1)\r
\r
# Server (S) and Nick (n) fields can have international characters.\r
- # We first convert to normal ASCII, then encode them as UTF-8.\r
+ # We first convert to UTF-8, then to ASCII. Characters will be lost\r
+ # in this conversion for the sake of presenting what otherwise \r
+ # would have to use CSS sprites.\r
if key in 'S' 'n':\r
value = qfont_decode(unicode(value, 'utf-8'))\r
\r