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I am currently experiencing difficulty in writing text files containing

French characters on my OpenBSD 4.0 server via SSH.
On both the FreeBSD client system and on the OpenBSD server system I

have the following: 
~/.profile:
export LANG="C"

export LC_CTYPE="fr_CA.ISO8859-1"

export LC_COLLATE="fr_CA.ISO8859-1"
~/.inputrc:
set convert-meta Off

set editing-mode emacs

set input-meta On

set output-meta On
Note that I am contacting the FreeBSD system from a Ubuntu Linux box.
On that system I have the same ~/.inputrc file but instead of

~/.profile I am using ~/.bashrc:
export LANG="C"

export LC_CTYPE="fr_CA.ISO8859-1"

export LC_COLLATE="fr_CA.ISO8859-1"
All three users are using the bash shell.
The accented characters (ex: i) end up as question marks.
// juan
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