Re: Hungarian accents with SSH

[Rémi Guyomarch <rguyom_(_at_)_pobox_(_dot_)_com>]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:09:24PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am maintaining several OpenBSD server running on different
> architectures, but I have a common problem on all of these machines:
> the support of accents.
> 
> I mean the strangeness around it, not the lack of it.
> 
> When I ssh to an OpenBSD server from a Linux machine I can type in the
> accents and get what I want.
> But when I login to an OpenBSD machine from a host, running windows (the
> users use the PUTTY ssh client) the server gives back different
> characters.
> 
> Like when I enter é (é) it gives me i (for example in joe) and so
> on.
> 
> The strange thing comes when I do the following:
> from a windows based host I login to a Linux-machine with PUTTY and from
> that machine I use OpenSSH to login to the OpenBSD one.
> 
> Now it works.

Replace Linux with FreeBSD 4.2, PuTTY with TeraTerm Pro + TTSH,
Hungarian with French accentuated characters and you will have the
same symptoms. I didn't bothered much to fix the problem, but at least
I can type accentuated chars in bash with this ~/.inputrc :

rguyom_(_at_)_satanas ~ # cat .inputrc 
set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[4~": end-of-line

I didn't tried to fix the problem with joe, but I noticed that
FreeBSD's /usr/local/lib/joe/joerc is quite different than what the
OpenBSD port installs.

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Rémi