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Not able to edit åäö correctly in file on remote server

When logging in to remote server (terminal, macos ventura) I experience issues with editing files (using vim) where åäö is not working correctly.

Capital ÅÄÖ is not working at all, and and odd space is inserted when entering lowercase åäö.

I have another macos machine running big sur, and logging in to the remote server through the terminal on that computer works just fine, so my conclusion is that it's not the remote server that is the issue but some odd setting in the macos - any ideas?

When running "locale" locally I get:

LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Same settings on the big sur computer.

Tried:

  1. The terminal setting "Set environemnt variable" in the Terminal app setting is checked on the big sur machine. I've both checked and unchecked (an restarted the Terminal app) on the ventura machine, but no difference.
  2. Checked the .ssh/config - the only difference is that ventura requires
PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa
HostkeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa

I don't see that making any difference in this matter. Help with that to try next would be much appreciated. 🙏

Solution

  • Solved with the help of this answer in the end: https://superuser.com/questions/315202/terminal-in-os-x-lion-cant-write-%C3%A5%C3%A4%C3%B6-on-remote-machine

    I had that Q&A before, but I wasn't able to edit /etc/ssh/... and for some reason the penny didn't drop until I read Joachim Sauers comment (thank you!).

    I edited the ~/.ssh/config added the line:

    SendEnv LANG LC_*

    And now åäö works on remote machine.