I figured out it works in xterm and putty with ISO-8859-x charsets, just not with UTF-8.
Reported the request upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730154 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #730154 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730154 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1297051 Title: gnome-terminal doesn't recognise C1 controls To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte3/+bug/1297051/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs