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I am very fond of using irssi running in a screen as IRC client. I am on a wide range of IRC channels ranging from personal channels with friends to a bunch of opensource project channels. Some IRC channels I am in have a lot of UTF-8 content, for example #musicbrainz on Freenode. | I am very fond of using irssi running in a screen as IRC client. I am on a wide range of IRC channels ranging from personal channels with friends to a bunch of opensource project channels. Some IRC channels I am in have a lot of UTF-8 content, for example #musicbrainz on Freenode. | ||
This page is how I remember what to configure to get UTF-8 working on FreeBSD :) | This page is how I remember what to configure to get UTF-8 working in irssi in screen on FreeBSD :) | ||
== Bash == | == Bash == |
Revision as of 23:15, 19 September 2012
Background
I am very fond of using irssi running in a screen as IRC client. I am on a wide range of IRC channels ranging from personal channels with friends to a bunch of opensource project channels. Some IRC channels I am in have a lot of UTF-8 content, for example #musicbrainz on Freenode.
This page is how I remember what to configure to get UTF-8 working in irssi in screen on FreeBSD :)
Bash
The following lines in ~/.bash_profile
make bash behave properly with UTF-8:
export LC_ALL=da_DK.UTF-8 export LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
With a properly configured SSH client (see below), this is all I need to be able to enter Danish characters or paste UTF-8 text from wikipedia.
Screen / Irssi
I haven't touched my screen or irssi config to make this work. After bash got sorted it all just kindof worked.
Clients
PuTTy
When using PuTTy as SSH client I also go to Window -> Translation and set Received data assumed to be in which character set dropdown to UTF-8.