I am using Windows XP (SP1) and mIRC 6.12 and am trying to get Cyrillic character set to work.

I have turned on Multibyte characters in IRC->Messages.
I have changed the channel font to "Courier New"

Whenever I type anything in to the text box it displays as normal but when it comes out in the channel it displays "????"

I visited the DALnet #mIRC channel - it was suggested that I try it in mIRC 5.91... Using the same settings it worked fine in mIRC 5.91 so i can only assume this is a new bug.

Is there any work around for this? (Other than down grading my version of IRC)