patch adding IUTF8 support to OpenSSH
David Madore <david+bugs@madore.org> Fri, 29 March 2013 17:05 UTC
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:05:03 +0100
From: David Madore <david+bugs@madore.org>
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Cc: IETF SECSH WG <ietf-ssh@NetBSD.org>, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Subject: patch adding IUTF8 support to OpenSSH
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Attached is a(n absolutely trivial) patch that adds the IUTF8 terminal
mode (with code 42) to OpenSSH. Prebuilt Debian packages for those
architectures I was able to build for, for testing and stable
distributions, are available in <URL:
ftp://quatramaran.ens.fr/pub/madore/misc/openssh-with-iutf8/
>.
It works for me (transmits the IUTF8 mode when both the server and
client are patched, and, of course, does not break when only one of
them is). I would love to see some independent confirmation, though.
I understand that the Debian maintainer's position is that this patch
will not be applied until the value is standardized. So this patch is
submitted for testing purposes.
I have written a separate email to the authors of RFC 4250 to ask for
their guidance on how to get things moving on the standardization
front, although I fear a chickend-and-egg problem. I am willing to
try writing an Internet draft if nobody else will, but without some
weight to back it up I'm afraid it won't go far.
Happy hacking,
--
David A. Madore
( http://www.madore.org/~david/ )
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