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It was surprisingly difficult to find a desciption of what constitutes a valid nick on Freenode. Asked the friendly folks on #freenode and had the answer a few minutes later.

nickname = ( letter / special ) *8( letter / digit / special / “-” ) and special is “[”, “]”, “”, “`”, “_”, “^”, “{”, “|”, “}”

Nicks can be from 2 - 16 ASCII characters long. These characters are allowed:

RFC 1459 - Internet Relay Chat Protocol http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1459.txt