chinese/irssi's readline routines read and display strings one character a time. This cause display problem in a real Big5 terminal (for example, misc/screen with ^A :encoding big5 big5). Fix: The patch below: How-To-Repeat: Install and run misc/screen, type ^A and ":encoding big5 big5" to set the encoding of screen. Then start chinese/irssi, key in some Chinese words. Screen will "eat" higher bytes of Big5 characters. Pressing ^L to redraw screen will correct the output.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->vanilla Over to maintainer.
State Changed From-To: open->closed Committed, thanks.