2015-06-30 13:30:50 +0200, Vincent Lefevre:
[...]
> > I don't understand what you mean.
> > My point was, applications/systems use different locales. Nothing will
> > change that.
> > Thus when you process output from a remote application on the local
> > system, you must assume that this is happening or assure that the
> > expected locale is going to be set remotely as well.
> 
> You should learn how terminals work. When using a terminal, the remote
> charmap MUST be the same as the local one (or be a subset), otherwise
> the terminal cannot interpret the byte sequences correctly.
> 
> So, if there is no way to tell the remote side what the local charmap
> is, then the only possibility is that the remote side uses a charmap
> compatible with every other charmap, i.e. US-ASCII.
[...]

Or use luit  that has been designed for that:

>From a UTF-8 terminal:

luit -encoding 'ISO 8859-1' ssh host-known-to-use-latin1

Or:

ssh -t host luit

(assuming luit is installed on host).

(unfortunately it doesn't seem to support the /new/ Western
Europe charset iso8859-15).

-- 
Stephane


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