[Alpine-info] Foreign Characters?

[Sean C. Farley]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Andrew Morgan wrote:


> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

>

>> Assume that I want foreign characters to display correctly, in 

>> alpine/pine.  Right now I get either (literally) ??????? or some 

>> mixture of odd high-ascii characters and inverse-diamond-?????'s

>> 

>> Also, assume that I use screen, and that I'm connecting from another 

>> system over ssh

>> 

>> Soup-to-nuts, what is it I need to do on my:


*snip*


>> b) remote system (freebsd 6.x)

>

> In your login script, set LANG=en_US.UTF-8


On this note, I recommend adding the following to /etc/ssh/sshd_config 
on the FreeBSD system:

AcceptEnv LANG LC_* LANGUAGE

This will pass your language environment variables to the FreeBSD system 
without needing to set them again in the login script.

Sean
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