Re: [sage-devel] Re: setlocale problem

2013-08-02 Thread Volker Braun
For the record, the future is UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 / Latin-1. Unless you have a need to stick to the old ways its better to use en_GB.utf8 On Friday, August 2, 2013 3:42:16 PM UTC-4, John Cremona wrote: > The diagnosis was correct: I was ssh-ing from my desktop where the set > is our uni

Re: [sage-devel] Re: setlocale problem

2013-08-02 Thread John Cremona
The diagnosis was correct: I was ssh-ing from my desktop where the set is our university's official linux desktop and sets everything to en_GB.iso88591 but when you install ubuntu and say your are English-UK it only installs en_GB. Something like that anyway. Then ssh-ing to the new machine forwa

[sage-devel] Re: setlocale problem

2013-08-02 Thread Volker Braun
On Friday, August 2, 2013 2:55:03 PM UTC-4, Keshav Kini wrote: > It's not recommended? Debian seems to recommend it: > https://wiki.debian.org/Locale#SSH_Client > Well its definitely not recommended if your locale is not installed on the remote computer you are logging in to ;-) OpenSSH defau

[sage-devel] Re: setlocale problem

2013-08-02 Thread Keshav Kini
Volker Braun writes: > Are you ssh-ing into the machine or not? And if yes, from where? It > is not recommended to forward the environment by default over ssh but > it can be configured (see SendEnv, AcceptEnv in the ssh > configuration, /etc/ssh/ or ~/.ssh/config) It's not recommended? Debian s