When I ssh into my VPS, I have irssi running in screen. When someone sends a unicode character (such as © or €), irssi displays garbage when I use it via the screen in a ssh session. If I connect to that irssi using irssi's proxy module, from irssi running on my local computer, it shows up correctly.

Likewise, if I run ghci on my VPS (outside a screen) and enter in one of those characters, it crashes.

So, obviously, there is a character encoding issue of some sort with my connection to my VPS, either in ssh or the system setup.

How can I find out what is causing this, and solve it?

Details:

Client system

• Arch Linux x64
• UTF-8 encoding

VPS system

• Ubuntu Server 10.04
• Unknown encoding used. How do I find this? (I just have to look in my /etc/rc.conf for Arch)