ssh language environment overridden

Hi,
after installing ubuntu, the /etc/environment file contains a hardcoded setting of the LANG variable to UTF-8 flavours, e.g.

    LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"

This overrides any prior setting, e.g. when remote logging in from outside through ssh. (ssh can pass through these environment variables from the remote host).

However, if the user logs in from a different system (e.g. debian), where the current terminal setting is not UTF-8, but e.g. ISO-8859-1, or UTF-8 is not fully supported, the terminal connection won't work properly, since the variables are overridden. You can't change them effectively within a current session.

Maybe the PAM mechanism's environment settings might help, they provide a way to set variables only if not been set before.

regards
Hadmut