IRSSI and Character Encoding

[Foucault]

Hello everyone,
I've recently started using IRSSI for IRC, which seems very interesting, however there seems to be a problem in encoding and therefore I can not see any greek characters. My terminal supports greek characters (I can type greek and read filenames in greek). However in IRSSI all greek characters are shown as (?) -see attached screenshot- . I've tried changing the encoding to iso8859-7 (greek) by issuing the command /set term_charset iso8859-7 however the same problem persists. Is it IRSSI's problem or my terminal's? Any ideas (if any) to fix it?

In X-Chat I only need to change the encoding (character set option) in the server settings. However I don't really like X-Chat

Thanks everyone in advance!

[jessicaNZ]

I recently had a similar problem but I wanted to use UTF-8 (to see German characters). I found this website which helped me http://jerakeen.org/blog/2005/06/23/screen-irssi-utf8/ .

He suggests makeing sure that the 'LANG' environment variable is set. For you the command you have to run might be something like:

export LANG=el_GR.iso88597

(but I'm not sure because I never use Greek encoding myself)

You would run that in your terminal (assuming you're using bash) before starting irssi. If it works you can put that line in your ~/.bashrc file like so:

echo -e "#this sets my character encoding to Greek \nexport LANG=el_GR.iso88597" >>~/.bashrc

Then you don't have to remember to run it every time because it will be run automaticly when you start bash.

good luck and have fun with irssi
- Jessica