Problem with irssi run inside screen

[Steve Scrimpshire]

When I run irssi inside screen (doesn't matter what terminal emulator...Eterm, xterm, etc) somehow I have the wrong encoding. See here what I mean:

 

I also notice when I run luit, I get:

[omar@laptop ~]$ luit
Warning: couldn't find charset data for locale en_US.UTF-8; using ISO 8859-1.

 

(whether inside screen or not).

 

[omar@laptop ~]$ locale
LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

 

I have this problem with mdv's screen pkg and downloading and compiling screen. Same problem whether I remove my ~/.screenrc or not. Any ideas? (Haven't noticed this problem with anything else). Once again note that outside of screen, I don't have the encoding problem and those funny symbols are dashes (look like short dashes though). Outside of screen, though, irssi has a different problem...when the screen fills up, instead of the text scrolling, the last line just keeps getting replaced by the new line typed in...this has to do with ncurses and a bug report has been filed on it for a long time. They have it set as resolved....haha:

http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7209

Edited October 6, 2006 by Steve Scrimpshire