On 2015-06-30 16:09:29 +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 2015-06-30 16:45:59 +0200, Vincent Lefevre:
> > On 2015-06-30 15:04:17 +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> > > From a UTF-8 terminal:
> > > 
> > > luit -encoding 'ISO 8859-1' ssh host-known-to-use-latin1
> > 
> > This is not very good, because the default encoding on the remote
> > machine may change without notice.
> 
> That's also potentially affected by the remote user's
> .cshrc/.bashrc/.zshenv...

Actually more by a change by the admin.

> > > Or:
> > > 
> > > ssh -t host luit
> > 
> > Any solution without writing "luit" explicitly?
> 
> Other solutions can be GNU screen which can translate encodings
> on the fly.

GNU screen doesn't allow one to use the alternate screen, and there
would be the same problem: how to use GNU screen without writing it
explicitly?

For instance:

  ssh host my_command

where my_command is automatically run under GNU screen.

With charmap transmission, everything is transparent.

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