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Alex
Asked: 2014-11-03 08:13:54 +0800 CST

ssh encoding from ubuntu client to ubuntu server wrong

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I login to my server via ssh. Any umlaut is displayed incorrectly: example

Server Default locale:

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"

Server locale:

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8

What can I do to correct this?

ssh

2 Answers

  1. One thing you could try is the following command to set the locale of the console:

    sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

    Ensure the encoding is set to UTF-8, rather than ISO-8859-* or something else. Hopefully your issue is as simple as this.

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  2. Problem: The (unspecified) ssh client speaks and listens ISO 8859, whereas server speaks UTF.
    Solution: Make the ssh client software speak and listen UTF-8.
    Still little information on the client-side setup so explicit directions do not seem possible.

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