Forums Bug Reports UTF-8 display problem

I chat a server the has UTF-8 support and I noticed a display issue in my theme today while trying to send pm's to a user.

The users name was -¤Chuck¤- which when decoded looks like -¤Chuck¤-

The problem comes wehn my theme goes to echo messages into the query window.

.echo $active $me $+ 11: $1-

and

.echo $nick $nick $+ 11: $1-

ect...

only the $1- data will show in the query window for myself and the received messages are displayed in the status window without the name or colon again.

I tried opening a window and doing "//echo $active test" and i get: * /echo: insufficient parameters

But! if I do "//echo $active test test" it returns "test", it is removing the first word of input.