irssi and character encoding
Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:30 - Daniel - Other - Comments (0)
I just spend way to much time trying to get irssi to join a channel with an umlaut in it's name. After trying about every combination of /recode ans /set recode* settings I could think about, checking if the encoding of every system and terminal emulator is correct and set to utf-8 and trying to start screen w/ and w/o -U I finally find something working
Setting the charset of gnome-terminal to iso-8859-1 produces horrible, unreadable Mojibake, but I can finally join the channel. After adding the channel to the autoconnect list I can join this channel w/o needing to switch the charset of gnome-terminal.
The channel name still looks messed up, but sending and receving special characters works, so I guess I can call it a success.
Charset problems just suck.
Tags: character set charset irssi irc
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