On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 05:59:34PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > The Linux ssh client apparently does not have a mechanism for independently > specifying the character mapping, as PuTTY does. If it does, I haven't > discovered it. The Linux ssh client relies on the character mapping of > the host Linux system under which it runs. You have to change that to UTF-8 > if you want to have the box characters of the Debian installer running on > a remote s390 or s390x host look right. You specify that in two different > places: one for xterm sessions under the X Window system (or a substitute > application for xterm, such as Gnome Terminal) and the other for virtual > terminals (vt1-vt6). UTF-8 has been the default on Debian for ages now and there really is no reason to run it with a different charset. (convmv helps if you're dealing with wrongly encoded files.) Kind regards Philipp Kern
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