3 files changed, 15 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/src/irc/core/irc-channels.c b/src/irc/core/irc-channels.c
index 682be4c2..e775f530 100644
--- a/src/irc/core/irc-channels.c
+++ b/src/irc/core/irc-channels.c
@@ -174,6 +174,13 @@ static CHANNEL_REC *irc_channel_find_server(SERVER_REC *server,
 					    const char *channel)
 {
 	GSList *tmp;
+	char *fmt_channel;
+
+	/* if 'channel' has no leading # this lookup is going to fail, add a
+	 * octothorpe in front of it to handle this case. */
+	fmt_channel = server_ischannel(SERVER(server), channel) ?
+	    g_strdup(channel) :
+	    g_strdup_printf("#%s", channel);
 
 	for (tmp = server->channels; tmp != NULL; tmp = tmp->next) {
 		CHANNEL_REC *rec = tmp->data;
@@ -182,13 +189,19 @@ static CHANNEL_REC *irc_channel_find_server(SERVER_REC *server,
                         continue;
 
 		/* check both !ABCDEchannel and !channel */
-		if (IRC_SERVER(server)->nick_comp_func(channel, rec->name) == 0)
+		if (IRC_SERVER(server)->nick_comp_func(fmt_channel, rec->name) == 0) {
+			g_free(fmt_channel);
 			return rec;
+		}
 
-		if (IRC_SERVER(server)->nick_comp_func(channel, rec->visible_name) == 0)
+		if (IRC_SERVER(server)->nick_comp_func(fmt_channel, rec->visible_name) == 0) {
+			g_free(fmt_channel);
 			return rec;
+		}
 	}
 
+	g_free(fmt_channel);
+
 	return NULL;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/irc/core/irc-nicklist.c b/src/irc/core/irc-nicklist.c
index 667016aa..bcb9d1f6 100644
--- a/src/irc/core/irc-nicklist.c
+++ b/src/irc/core/irc-nicklist.c
@@ -55,30 +55,6 @@ NICK_REC *irc_nicklist_insert(IRC_CHANNEL_REC *channel, const char *nick,
 	return rec;
 }
 
-#define isnickchar(a) \
-	(i_isalnum(a) || (a) == '`' || (a) == '-' || (a) == '_' || \
-	(a) == '[' || (a) == ']' || (a) == '{' || (a) == '}' || \
-	(a) == '|' || (a) == '\\' || (a) == '^')
-
-/* Remove all "extra" characters from `nick'. Like _nick_ -> nick */
-char *irc_nick_strip(const char *nick)
-{
-	char *stripped, *spos;
-
-	g_return_val_if_fail(nick != NULL, NULL);
-
-	spos = stripped = g_strdup(nick);
-	while (isnickchar(*nick)) {
-		if (i_isalnum(*nick))
-			*spos++ = *nick;
-		nick++;
-	}
-	if ((unsigned char) *nick >= 128)
-		*spos++ = *nick; /* just add it so that nicks won't match.. */
-	*spos = '\0';
-	return stripped;
-}
-
 int irc_nickcmp_rfc1459(const char *m, const char *n)
 {
 	while (*m != '\0' && *n != '\0') {
diff --git a/src/irc/core/irc-nicklist.h b/src/irc/core/irc-nicklist.h
index 7302556b..2ae17d2c 100644
--- a/src/irc/core/irc-nicklist.h
+++ b/src/irc/core/irc-nicklist.h
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ NICK_REC *irc_nicklist_insert(IRC_CHANNEL_REC *channel, const char *nick,
 			      int op, int halfop, int voice, int send_massjoin,
 			      const char *prefixes);
 
-/* Remove all "extra" characters from `nick'. Like _nick_ -> nick */
-char *irc_nick_strip(const char *nick);
-
 int irc_nickcmp_rfc1459(const char *, const char *);
 int irc_nickcmp_ascii(const char *, const char *);