[Alpine-info] Foreign Characters?

[Sean C. Farley]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:


> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Sean C. Farley wrote:

>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Andrew Morgan wrote:

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


*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.

>

> Aah, and here I thought (from the SSH man page) that is was a case of 

> the terminal system not SENDING it to the remote one.


Good point.  I forgot that you need to also send it.  :)  Also add this 
to your .ssh/config file:

Host *
         SendEnv LANG LC_* LANGUAGE

Sean
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