Re: Hungarian accents with SSH

[naddy_(_at_)_mips_(_dot_)_inka_(_dot_)_de (Christian Weisgerber)]

Attila Nagy <bra_(_at_)_fsn_(_dot_)_hu> wrote:

> Like when I enter é (&eacute;) it gives me i (for example in joe) and so
> on.

This is reasonably straightforward.  Something chops off the top bit.
'é' = 0xE9; 'i' = 0x69; 0xE9 & 0x7F = 0x69.

I'd start out by looking at the tty settings, stty(1).

> It seems to me that Linux recognizes the character codes received from
> that windows machine and automagically translates between them.

No, you're thinking much too complicated.

>From your description, the top bit is stolen for PUTTY->OpenBSD
logins, but not for PUTTY->Linux logins.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy_(_at_)_mips_(_dot_)_inka_(_dot_)_de