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I have a Debian Jessie server that I am connecting to via PuTTY. While displaying umlauts and other special characters does work, I cannot type them with the keyboard. For é, è, ä or ß I simply hear a bell, for ö bash changes to (arg: 6) and for ü I get something from the bash history (not the latest entry though).

I tried setting the terminal-type string to linux or putty, but it didn't change anything. How can I fix the special keys?

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    Possible duplicate of How to type special characters in Linux?
    – Thomas Dickey
    Nov 27, 2017 at 23:03
  • No it's not. It's something specific to PuTTY because I don't have this problem using a Linux client connected via OpenSSH to the server.
    – user410854
    Nov 27, 2017 at 23:09
  • Alternatively this.
    – Thomas Dickey
    Nov 27, 2017 at 23:42
  • Unfortunately not. Also, I do have a German keyboard with those physical letters, I am not trying to enter umlauts using the Alt-key.
    – user410854
    Nov 28, 2017 at 0:02
  • In putty, have you set the remote character set to utf-8? (Settings/Window/Translation)?
    – pim
    Nov 28, 2017 at 8:42

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