any progress here?

irssi looks terrible in finnish-channels without ö and ä

Hi,

Upgrade your osso-xterm from here:
http://andrew.olmsted.ca/maemo/osso-xterm
You may need to install those libs first. I'm using v0.14.

then you can set character encoding from tools menu (iso8859-15)

jaykie

There are alternative solutions:

The best one is to use UTF-8 locales on the remote side, but this is not always possible: multibyte characters need to be supported (by the OS and the applications), the corresponding locales must be installed, there may be annoying bugs and so on... Moreover, SSH has no standard way to transmit the charset; and doing something automatically may be tricky. Note: transmitting the LC_CTYPE environment variable works with most platforms, but not with the N810 (because UTF-8 is implicit here thus doesn't appear in the locale environment variables -- see output of "locale -a").

The screen utility can do transcoding. Same possible problems as above, except that applications that will run in screen don't need to support multibyte characters.

I really, really need an upgrade of osso-xterm allowing me to change the character encoding to ISO-8859. I have downloaded the v0.14 from the url quoted. How do I install it in my N900? Thanks in advance for relevant advice.