Fixes bug #655: National characters support, patch written mostly by Phoenix, bits of core support by myself. This means that nicknames using *non ASCII* are now supported when configured, and more importantly, that /msg lowercasenick will go to a person with UPPERCASENICK in foreign character sets. The locale setting MUST be the same network-wide.

git-svn-id: http://svn.inspircd.org/repository/trunk/inspircd@10980 e03df62e-2008-0410-955e-edbf42e46eb7

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+Here you can find locales configuration files.
+
+(!) The idea and several locale files are derived from Bynets UnrealIRCd distribution (See http://www.bynets.org/)
+
+*** File structure ***
+
+Each file consists of 5-7 lines:
+1: List of additional allowed characters
+
+2: List of additional allowed multibyte characters ranges. In form: Sa_1 Ea_1 Sa_2 Ea_2 Sb_1 Eb_1 Sb_2 Eb_2... Total numbers count should be dividend of 4
+   Sx_1 Start of highest byte
+   Ex_1 End of highest byte
+   Sx_2 Start of lowest byte
+   Ex_2 End of lowest byte
+
+3: List of additional characters that should be treated as upper-case
+
+4: 255 characters table - to-lower case conversion table. 
+Can be usefull for example for comparing nicknames that contains similar-looking characters with different codes.
+
+5: 255 characters table - to-upper case conversion table. 
+Can be usefull for example for comparing nicknames that contains similar-looking characters with different codes.
+
+6: List of additional UTF-8 allowed characters
+
+7: List of additional UTF-8 ranges (character followed by "range"). Strongly experimental. May be replaced in future versions.
+
+*** Line format ***
+
+Each line can be list of characters or decimal/hexadecimal/octal codes divided by spaces or commas in form like:
+0 1 2 / 00 01 02 / 0x01 0x02 0x03...
+or
+'a', 'b', 'c'
+or combined:
+x01, 002 'a', 'b', 'c',
+
+It is also possible to write plain-text line of characters. In this case it should begin with a . (dot) character. For example:
+.abcdefABCDEF23432*&^*
+In this case every character of line except first dot specifies one character-code for table
+
+*** Notice ***
+
+"bynets" directory contains tables from Bynets' UnrealIRCd distribution. You might find them useful.
+
+*** TODO ***
+
+- Maybe replace line 7 with <interval start> <interval end> form?
+- UTF-8 collation rules (Inapplieable to InspIRCd atm).