openssh bugs - Aug 2015 - [Bug 2450] New: paint visual host key with unicode box-drawing characters

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2450

            Bug ID: 2450
           Summary: paint visual host key with unicode box-drawing
                    characters
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 7.0p1
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5
         Component: ssh
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
          Reporter: mail at eworm.de

Created attachment 2688
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paint visual host key with unicode box-drawing characters

Paint visual host key with unicode box-drawing characters.

This is completly optional and should not break anything if the system
does not support it.

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Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> ---
I'm not sure we want the extra complexity needed to do this; ASCII art
is simple and works everywhere.

That being said, we definitely don't want to do it via iconv - that's
overkill.

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--- Comment #2 from Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de> ---
Feel free to close with WONTFIX.

Initially this was just a proof of concept and I learned a lot. But
this brings no real benefit but complexity.
Even if not used this requires strings (pointer to char) instead of
plain characters to handle the multi byte characters.

At least it is archived here for everybody interested in this.

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