On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 02:00:56AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2006-01-02 18:20:50 -0500, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: > > One could argue that an SSH server running on such a system should look > > at the configured locale and configure the PTY appropriately, and that's > > probably even a good idea. > > What "configured locale"? The user may use a locale which is not the
Whatever the locale for that channel/session/whatever. > default one at the system level. Perhaps you mean that the SSH client > should propagate the locale (more precisely, the charmap) to the SunSSH 1.1 does (by having the client set per-channel LANG/LC_* environment variables). It's less than perfect: the client has no idea what a client-side locale maps to on the server side. Also, it's not just character sets that matter, but language for localization of messages, date formats, etc... Nico -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
