ssh and UTF-8

If you have to connect to an ISO… host from an UTF-8 host, use luit.

Luit is a filter that can be run between an arbitrary application and a UTF-8 terminal emulator. It will convert application output from the locale’s encoding into UTF-8, and convert terminal input from UTF-8 into the locale’s encoding.

You can use it this way:

luit -encoding ISO8859-15 ssh <host .domain>

To avoid typing this command each time, add this line to my ~/.bashrc file:

alias ussh='luit -encoding ISO8859-15 ssh'

If you choose to name the alias ’ssh’, this causes problems with bash auto-completion features.