While looking throught the IRC logs, I noticed the following thing asked
more than once:
One problem with utf8 locales on the LiveCD, is you can't simply ssh
into a non-utf8 machine in console. In X it works, but in console I
couldn't su - to my server, passwords were messed up, etc.
This is not going to be fixed because it is not a bug. ssh just
transfers bytes (and rightfully needs to be able to do so, because of
things like scp and sftp that transfer bytes, not characters), and same
bytes mean different characters in de_DE and de_DE.UTF-8 locales. If you
need to ssh into a system that uses a different locale, use Screen, as
follows:
screen
Ctrl+A
:encoding [encoding-on-the target] # e.g., :encoding ISO-8859-1
<the local prompts will get messed up at this point, ignore this>
ssh tarhet.host.com
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