I have done a bit of searching, but could not find either of the things you requested. I will keep looking for more information on using different character sets and Irssi.pm, and will post anything I find that is good quality.
Anyhow, I did find a new link to a "Perl Scripting Reference" for irsii, and added it to the Tut.
Thanks for the input,
mmmmtmmmm
Comment on Re^2: RFC: Tutorial - IRC Programming In Perl
mmmmtmmmm:
POE::Component::IRC's Logger plugin handles encodings the way recent mIRC (and irssi/xchat if configured right) versions do. I suggest you take a look at the source code.