openssh bugs - Feb 2004 - [Bug 804] Locale character encoding disobeyed on interactive session

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=804

           Summary: Locale character encoding disobeyed on interactive
                    session
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 3.8p1
          Platform: ix86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P4
         Component: ssh
        AssignedTo: openssh-bugs at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: pawel at sakowski.eu.org


Take the following configuration:

local$ echo $LANG;locale charmap
pl_PL
UTF-8
local$ ssh user at remote
[...]
remote$ echo $LANG;locale charmap
pl_PL
ISO-8859-2

Now, if I invoke any locale-aware application on the remote machine (tar --help
is enough), any non-ASCII letter it sends over the net (try to) appear on my
console encoded in ISO-8859-2, that is, contrary to my terminal's settings.

Note that it's perfectly valid in glibc to pick any character encoding for
the
locale one wants to use.

I believe that the client and the server should agree on a common interpretation
of the octets sent over the net (server->client or vice versa) as characters
and
provide some sort of on-the-fly conversion.



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markus at openbsd.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|minor                       |enhancement
         OS/Version|Linux                       |All
           Platform|ix86                        |All





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djm at mindrot.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX



------- Additional Comments From djm at mindrot.org  2004-03-03 09:29 -------
The protocol doesn't include transmission of environment variables. You
should
set it at the remote end in .profile or similar.



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