Bug#337041: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

2013-02-04 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 16:02 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-12-31 16:05:59 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Recent versions of the Linux kernel support an IUTF8 flag (see > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#mod) which allows the > > character-erase function in cooked mode to handl

Bug#337041: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

2013-02-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-12-31 16:05:59 +, Colin Watson wrote: > Recent versions of the Linux kernel support an IUTF8 flag (see > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#mod) which allows the > character-erase function in cooked mode to handle UTF-8 characters > correctly. I would like to allow this mode to

Bug#337041: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

2008-05-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-05-12 09:35:46 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > What if the user reads three languages and doesn't know which the remote > server has localizations for? What if the user doesn't have "dot files" > on the server? There's also the problem that if the user shell is bash, the .bashrc (or .bas

Bug#337041: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

2008-05-12 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:07:47AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-05-11 21:00:55 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > SunSSH 1.1 does (by having the client set per-channel LANG/LC_* > > environment variables). > > I meant in a way that always works in practice. It tends to, though only by

Bug#337041: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

2008-05-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:07:47AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-05-11 21:00:55 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 02:00:56AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > default one at the system level. Perhaps you mean that the SSH client > > > should propagate the locale

Bug#337041: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

2008-05-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-05-11 21:00:55 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 02:00:56AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > 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

Bug#337041: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

2008-05-11 Thread Nicolas Williams
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 g

Bug#337041: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

2008-05-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
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 n

Bug#337041: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

2006-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Monday, January 02, 2006 04:43:58 PM -0600 Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 05:29:40PM -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: In response to later messages: > While setting LANG et al is indeed useful, it's not enough to make the > kernel's terminal driver do th

Bug#337041: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

2006-01-02 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 06:20:50PM -0500, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: > The original request wasn't really about standardizing handling of UTF-8 in > SSH data streams. That's really outside the scope of the protocol -- > unlike telnet, SSH doesn't provide a "virtual terminal"; it connects the > sh

Bug#337041: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

2006-01-02 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 05:29:40PM -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > In response to later messages: > > While setting LANG et al is indeed useful, it's not enough to make the > > kernel's terminal driver do the right thing when erasing characters in > > cooked mode. That's why the termios flag was in

Bug#337041: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

2006-01-02 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 11:05, Colin Watson wrote: > Recent versions of the Linux kernel support an IUTF8 flag (see > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#mod) which allows the > character-erase function in cooked mode to handle UTF-8 characters > correctly. I would like to allow this mode to

Bug#337041: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

2005-12-31 Thread Colin Watson
Recent versions of the Linux kernel support an IUTF8 flag (see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#mod) which allows the character-erase function in cooked mode to handle UTF-8 characters correctly. I would like to allow this mode to be preserved by SSH, but there is no assignment for it at