On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:50:00PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > >And something does -- set the LANG variable right, and it'll work, right? > If it's that easy, why doesn't SSH set LANG? Why should I have a lot of > trouble doing this manually every time? And how does that help with > filenames? Answers to your questions in order. :) 1. Because it has no idea what to set it to. 2. You shouldn't have to go to a lot of trouble. And you shouldn't need to do it manually each time -- at the very least, you can script it. 3. The filename encoding problem is kinda sticky. Devising a workable on-the-fly transcoding solution seems like a lot of work on the _symptoms_. Instead, let's work on getting everything to work well with UTF-8. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
