UTF-8

[hanskokx]

I can't connect to my MOSH server because the terminal uses US-ASCII rather than UTF-8. There's no option to configure this, either.

[maxhora]

@skipmeister123 could you please give the version number of mosh installed on your remote machine?
So far can't repro this.

[maxhora]

@skipmeister123 also, could you please specify Windows 10 version and build from winver

[hanskokx]

Oh, yeah. Sorry - that would have been useful. I'm on Win10 1903, running mosh 1.3.2

[mjs]

This looks to be a problem with either the configuration of the server host or the client host. Mosh strictly requires a UTF-8 locale to run. There's not a lot FluentTerminal can do to configure the remote server.

So just to be clear, both the client and remote server are running Windows 1903? Is the SSH server OpenSSH?

[hanskokx]

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[mjs]

@skipmeister123 looks like something went wrong here...

[hanskokx]

Can you elaborate, please?

[felixse]

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@skipmeister123 Your email reply was somehow messed up (See quote above). I think GitHub was having some issues this day

[hanskokx]

Strange.  I asked for additional details.

[jerch]

@skipmeister123 Currently xterm.js (the emulator lib behind FluentTerminal) can only operate with JS strings (UTF16 internally) or UTF8 encoded bytes, thus we are bound to UTF world atm. We have a PR open to directly support other encodings as well (xtermjs/xterm.js#2362).

[szymczag]

Hi,
first of all, thanks guys for your amazing work, finally we have some real terminal on Windows!

As mentioned above, I have a similar problem with my Ubuntu host.

Here's my host configuration:

~ » mosh-server --version
mosh-server (mosh 1.3.2) [build mosh 1.3.2]
Copyright 2012 Keith Winstein <[email protected]>
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
» dpkg -l |grep mosh
ii  mosh                                   1.3.2+1279-0ppa~ubuntu16.04.1       amd64        Mobile shell that supports roaming and intelligent local echo     
~ » lsb_release -icd
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Codename:       bionic
~ » locale
LANG=
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=en_US.utf8

and when I'm trying to connect to this host using a SSH Profile in Fluent Terminal (which is only a username@host, a ssh key and the rest is default) I'm getting the following:

mosh-server needs a UTF-8 native locale to run.

I found some tip on StackOverflow which might be helpful: changing a locale in Terminal by using a chcp.com 65001 command.

I hope that will help you to fix this, thanks!

[lemchen]

when the mosh-server use bash environment , fluent can connect to it with no problem, but when the mosh-server in a zsh envrionment, it will issue this problem

[Toby222]

Getting this problem when connecting to an Arch machine

(on server)

> mosh --version
mosh 1.3.2 [build mosh-1.3.2]

> locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

[kenden]

Same issue with:
Fluent Terminal 0.7.7.0
Connecting to Ubuntu:20.04 with mosh-server 1.3.2.

I tried adding environment variables
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
in the Fluent Terminal ssh profile

but that doesn't help.

Note:
if I connect to WSL (running Ubuntu:20.04), then mosh from there to the remote machine, it works:

# running
$ mosh --ssh 'ssh -vvv' remotemachine.domain.name
shows:
(...)
debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8
(...)
-> connects successfully

But this fails with the same message if I set the LC_ALL environment variable to en_US.

$ LC_ALL="en_US" mosh --ssh 'ssh -vvv' remotemachine.domain.name
(...)
debug1: Sending env LC_ALL = en_US
(...)
mosh-server needs a UTF-8 native locale to run.

Unfortunately, the local environment (LC_ALL=en_US) specifies
the character set "ISO-8859-1",

The client-supplied environment (LC_ALL=en_US) specifies
the character set "ISO-8859-1".
(...)

[yuhc]

Is there any update for this?

mosh-server needs a UTF-8 native locale to run.

Unfortunately, the local environment ([no charset variables]) specifies
the character set "US-ASCII",

The client-supplied environment ([no charset variables]) specifies
the character set "US-ASCII".