sftp: cannot enter umlauts like ä, ö, ü
Bug #349913 reported by
Roland Hieber
This bug affects 4 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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portable OpenSSH |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
openssh (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Won't Fix
|
Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When I am on the sftp prompt, I cannot enter something like ä, ö or ü. It just does nothing if I press the keys, so I can't transfer files including these characters. On the other hand, ls works fine with such files.
This is my curent locale:
$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=
LC_NUMERIC=
LC_TIME=
LC_COLLATE=
LC_MONETARY=
LC_MESSAGES=
LC_PAPER=
LC_NAME=
LC_ADDRESS=
LC_TELEPHONE=
LC_MEASUREMENT=
LC_IDENTIFICATI
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8
Changed in openssh (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in openssh (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
assignee: | nobody → Joshua Powers (powersj) |
status: | New → In Progress |
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strace output of sftp session, pressing "ä" at the "sftp> " prompt:
[...]
write(1, "sftp> "..., 6sftp> ) = 6
read(0, "\303"..., 1) = 1
read(0, "\244"..., 1) = 1
write(1, "\7"..., 1) = 1
read(0,