Where is the $LANG variable defined?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Nov 7 17:10:50 UTC 2004


On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:03:41AM +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> It's not OpenSSH but the SSH protocol itself.
> SSH doesn't handle different charsets.
> I just use gnome-terminal to change encodings to match the remote server.

I don't think SSH *should* be handling different character sets. Right now,
it just passes on whatever data it gets. If it got into the business of
munging things to match whatever it thought you wanted, I can see all sorts
of potential problems.

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