Bug 89342 - Don't shows the correct characters when working with telnet
Summary: Don't shows the correct characters when working with telnet
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gnome-terminal
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-04-22 17:49 UTC by Felix Valle
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-04-22 18:24:25 UTC
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Description Felix Valle 2003-04-22 17:49:59 UTC 
Description of problem:
In a system with spanish default language (es), when working via telnet against
other unix system (HP-UX 11), the special spanish characters á é í ó ú and ñ
appear in the terminal as "?". When typing these characters, they appear as "C!"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.2.1-3

How reproducible:
allwais

Steps to Reproduce:
1.telnet <HP-UX>
2.login
3.Pick á é í ó ú
    
Actual results:
C! C! C! C!

Expected results:
á é í ó ú

Additional info:
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-04-22 18:24:25 UTC 
Go to the Terminal->Character Coding menu and change your encoding 
to match the remote system. Neither telnet nor ssh support doing 
this automatically, you would need to get IETF to extend those 
protocols to make it just work.
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