How to make irssi talk UTF8 on a classic ISO-8859-2 terminal, flash HOWTO:

• /set term_charset ISO-8859-2
• /set recode_out_default_charset utf8
• /set recode_autodetect_utf8 ON
• /set recode_fallback ISO8859-2
• /set recode_transliterate ON
• /set recode ON
• /save

If you have too old irssi:

• You need irssi sources.
• http://norpan.org/cvs/charconv/charconv.tar.gz?tarball=1
• make, make install
• In irssi: /load charconv (Ignore the configuration file error.)
• /set term_type 8bit
• /set charconv_terminal_charset iso-8859-2
• /set charconv_fallback iso-8859-2 (Some unfortunates still use this, so do this to be able to still read them.)

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