Jul 14
View international characters in SSH sessions
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Files with Japanese names that show up fine when I'm in the local terminal, all turn into ???? when I ssh in from my laptop. It's because the locale of the remote sessions is ignoring the default locale and encoding of my local terminal. My local terminal defaults to "en_US.UTF-8," while the ssh sessions are something called "C," which apparently doesn't support Unicode.
One solution I've discovered is to to edit the ssh_config and sshd_config files so that the client sends the language environment variables, and the server accepts them. I've created two commands you can run in Terminal to achieve this:On the server, you should run:and on the client...
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One solution I've discovered is to to edit the ssh_config and sshd_config files so that the client sends the language environment variables, and the server accepts them. I've created two commands you can run in Terminal to achieve this:On the server, you should run:
sudo sh -c 'printf "\n\n# Accept language environment variables\nAcceptEnv LANG LC_*" >> /etc/sshd_config'Leave a Reply
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