I don't know about a ssh session, but setting LANG=en_US solves this problem just fine under normal circumstances. Any other LANG with an 8bit charset ought to do fine as well. The default "C" limits you to ASCII. Then there's no æ Á or even ø!
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It'll get you deleted!
