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Short description of my problem:
I ran into an issue lately where I am unable to make bash/nano/irssi/etc display "special" UTF-8 characters like the german umlauts (äüö), the euro sign (€) and some other UTF-8 characters like ß, §, etc.

What I already tried:

• dpkg-reconfigure locales and only generated en_US.UTF-8
• setting LC_ALL, LANG and LANGUAGE to en_US.UTF-8 within the .bashrc for both my user and root
• re-installed locales and libx11-data (which seems to contain all the language data)

Of course i re-logged via ssh after all these changes and even tried restarting the server even though I know it doesn't solve any problem in Linux in 99,9875% of all cases.

Information on my system:
OS: Debian stretch -> Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux
locales: v.2.22-7

Output of locale:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=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=en_US.UTF-8

When typing for example ä into the console and press enter I get -bash: $'\344': command not found.
Honestly I am out of ideas, can anyone help me out with this?

Short description of my problem:
I ran into an issue lately where I am unable to make bash/nano/irssi/etc display "special" UTF-8 characters like the german umlauts (äüö), the euro sign (€) and some other UTF-8 characters like ß, §, etc.

What I already tried:

• dpkg-reconfigure locales and only generated en_US.UTF-8
• setting LC_ALL, LANG and LANGUAGE to en_US.UTF-8 within the .bashrc for both my user and root
• re-installed locales and libx11-data (which seems to contain all the language data)

Of course I re-logged in via ssh after all these changes and even tried restarting the server even though I know it doesn't solve any problem in Linux in 99,9875% of all cases.

Information on my system:
OS: Debian stretch -> Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux
locales: v.2.22-7

Output of locale:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=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=en_US.UTF-8

When typing for example ä into the console and press enter I get -bash: $'\344': command not found.
Honestly I am out of ideas, can anyone help me out with this?

Short description of my problem:
I ran into an issue lately where I am unable to make bash/nano/irssi/etc display "special" UTF-8 characters like the german umlauts (äüö), the euro sign (€) and some other UTF-8 characters like ß, §, etc.

What I already tried:

• dpkg-reconfigure locales and only generated en_US.UTF-8
• setting LC_ALL, LANG and LANGUAGE to en_US.UTF-8 within the .bashrc for both my user and root
• re-installed locales and libx11-data (which seems to contain all the language data)

Of course i re-logged via ssh after all these changes and even tried restarting the server even though I know it doesn't solve any problem in Linux in 99,9875% of all cases.

Information on my system:
OS: Debian stretch -> Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux
locales: v.2.22-7

Output of locale:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=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=en_US.UTF-8

When typing for example ä into the console and press enter i get -bash: $'\344': command not found.
Honestly I am out of ideas, can anyone help me out with this?

Thanks in advance!

Short description of my problem:
I ran into an issue lately where I am unable to make bash/nano/irssi/etc display "special" UTF-8 characters like the german umlauts (äüö), the euro sign (€) and some other UTF-8 characters like ß, §, etc.

What I already tried:

• dpkg-reconfigure locales and only generated en_US.UTF-8
• setting LC_ALL, LANG and LANGUAGE to en_US.UTF-8 within the .bashrc for both my user and root
• re-installed locales and libx11-data (which seems to contain all the language data)

Of course i re-logged via ssh after all these changes and even tried restarting the server even though I know it doesn't solve any problem in Linux in 99,9875% of all cases.

Information on my system:
OS: Debian stretch -> Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux
locales: v.2.22-7

Output of locale:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=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=en_US.UTF-8

When typing for example ä into the console and press enter I get -bash: $'\344': command not found.
Honestly I am out of ideas, can anyone help me out with this?