problem with UTF-8 when accessing Emacs installed on iMac from ssh session on the iPad

[Carl Bolduc <carlbolduc@gmail.com>]

I have Emacs 23.3 installed on my Mac and it works perfectly there.

I use Emacs on many platform so I keep all my text file in UTF-8, I
have this in my .emacs: (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

On the Mac, I can open a terminal and run Emacs -nw and all the characters work.

On the iPad, I use Prompt
(http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for-ios/) to
open a ssh session on my Mac and run Emacs remotely. Whenever I try to
add a "French" character such as "é" or "è", I get "\351" in the
buffer and Emacs will complain if I try to save the file. If I switch
the coding system to iso-8859-1, I can enter the French chars without
any problems.

Is there a setting I can change to make UTF-8 work when I access Emacs
through ssh?

Carl