Bug#391964: openssh-client: Non-ASCII characters not displayed correctly

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 05:30:20PM +0200, Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
> When ssh-ing into another machine, I am able to write Danish
> characters such as æ,ø,å ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86 ,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98 ,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85 )
> But they are not displayed correctly, the console becomes messed up.
> 
> The problematic characters work fine on a local console. They also
> work fine when ssh-ing into the same server from Windows using putty.
> 
> $LANG on my local machine is en_US.UTF-8. When logging in via ssh
> $LANG is initially empty, but setting it to en_US.UTF-8 does not fix
> it.

I'm certain that openssh is 8-bit clean; a phenomenal number of things
would break if this were not the case. Perhaps you simply don't have the
en_US.UTF-8 locale generated on the remote machine, and the remote shell
is running with a non-UTF-8 locale (setting the locale after you log in
will not fix this)? If it's a Debian system, try 'dpkg-reconfigure
locales' as root.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]