Package: login
Version: 1:4.1.4.2-1
Severity: normal
Hello,
ATM, if one runs cat from a VT with a UTF-8 locale, type a non-ascii
character, backspace, enter, the first byte of the utf-8 encoding
non-ascii will remain in the stream. This is because the iutf8 flag is
not set. getty clears it because it is not supposed to know anything
beyond ascii. login, however, is responsible for loading the initial
environment through the pam_env.so PAM module, and then knows which
locale is configured on the system. There should be a PAM module (could
be named pam_tty for instance) which basically does
struct termios tty;
tcgetattr(STDIN_FILENO, &tty);
if (utf8_locale)
tty.c_iflag |= IUTF8;
else
tty.c_iflag &= ~IUTF8;
tcsetattr(STDIN_FILENO, &tty);
in order to properly set the iutf8 flag according to whether the
configured locale is utf8 or not.
Samuel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages login depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpam-modules 1.0.1-10 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 1.0.1-10 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-10 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
login recommends no packages.
login suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@fnac.net>
* c is away : cuisine; bouffe
<y> oh, moi je fais plut�t cuisine & bouffe en fait :)
<c> oui c'est vrai, certains font cuisine && bouffe (juste au cas o�... ;-))
<y> ( cuisine && bouffe ) || restau
<N> voire ((cuisine && bouffe) || restau) & ap�ritif
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