Please include http://www.irssi.org/scripts/scripts/charsetwars.pl in package. It does per nick/chanel/network character set conversion. It need some modifications, tough. "charsetwars_convert_out" is set to "0" by default, but should be set to 1. "charsetwars_own" is set to "iso8859-1" but should be set to current locales character set.
Fixed in gnome-vfs-1.0.5-alt4
При чем тут gnome-vfs?
А еще нужно вообще с реалиями в виде /recode ? А то закрываю.