Hi, I am seeing odd behaviour when pasting polish characters into an ssh session running in an xterm (or konsole). I haven't had to bother with charset issues before so my grasp of the problems is not great.
I need to be able to enter some polish characters on the command line (through mysql command line really). When mysql is run in an ssh session to a Debian machine polish chars are being converted to the question mark. Here's what I've tried so far and my observations: I start an xterm like this: LC_ALL=polish xterm \ -fn -bitstream-charter-black-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2 If I paste the polish characters into the above xterm they display correctly. If I start the mysql command line client in this xterm I can paste polish characters into mysql without difficulty. If from the above xterm I ssh into a debian machine (stable or unstable), and paste the characters into the xterm, the polish characters show up as a question mark. Bash is the shell on all machines. After an ssh the locale environment is not preserved but exporting LC_ALL=polish doesn't make any difference ... polish locale is definitely available on both machines. In the above ssh scenario if I start up vim with "LC_ALL=polish vim" and paste the characters into vim, things look fine. If I save the vim file and then cat it to the screen the fonts again display correctly. So perhaps it is a bash issue but why then don't I have a problem locally (using bash). If I fire up an xterm in the remote ssh seesion (through ssh X11Forwarding) I can paste the chars into that resulting xterm properly (that xterm still running bash). If in the original ssh session I run zsh inside of bash I can then paste the characters into the shell and they display correctly. However firing up the mysql command line client under zsh still results in ? for the polish chars. I have tried a "normal" ssh (no options) plus ssh with the option "-e none", disabling escapes does not help. Does anyone have any idea how to get the mysql client, running in bash or zsh over an ssh session to properly display iso-8859-2 characters? Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks -- Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wehave.net/ Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]