Bredman thank you so much!! This has been annoying me for a while.... it didn't break anything but every time it cropped up I ended up messing with the locale settings on my pi and not getting anywhere and giving up. Never thought it could be the client side.... hashed out that from my ssh_config on...

I have connected ok with a Huawei E220. however, I want to ping and ssh my pi, no joy, I understand t-mobile block ports or external access from outside the 3g network, therefore not allowing me to ping connect. Any advice? hacks, tricks? If you have another linux/unix box that you can connect to y...