rsync - Jul 2006 - ASCII colors in MOTD

Hi all,

For some time I noticed that my rsync server is not showing a colorfull MOTD...

Researching a bit, it turns out to be a problem since rsync-2.6.7 (rsync-2.6.6
is OK).

Looking at the NEWS:
    - The way rsync escapes unreadable characters has changed.  First, rsync
      now has support for recognizing valid multibyte character sequences in
      your current locale, allowing it to escape fewer...

So apparently this is to be blamed. Can anybody at least confirm this, or should
I
directly file a bug?

For example you can see my MOTD by:

	rsync -v rsync://rsync.tar.bz/gentoo-portage/NO_SUCH_FILE

It used to be a sleeping magenta cat on green grass...
Now the escape is escaped and becomes:

\#033[35m      |\      _.,,---,._       \#033[33m/                 \
\#033[35mZZzz. /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_   \#033[33m\ Kanagawa, Japan /
\#033[35m     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'  \#033[33m \               / 
\#033[35m    '---''(u/--'  `-'\_)       \#033[33m 
\_____________/
\#033[32m ~~tar.bz~~~tar.bz~~~tar.bz~~  \#033[33m

AFAIR, this escaping was intended only for filenames, right?
And BTW, adding -8 does not change anything.

Anybody?

Kalin.
 
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:01:22PM +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV
wrote:
> AFAIR, this escaping was intended only for filenames, right?
It affects all messages these days because filenames can occur embedded
in all sorts of messages and only the client side can determine which
multi-byte sequences are valid to output (so the server side can't do
the escaping when it inserts the names).
> And BTW, adding -8 does not change anything.
Correct -- rsync always escapes control characters, regardless of -8.

It would be possible to disable some of the escaping when the client is
displaying the MOTD, but I'm inclined to leave it alone because (1) it
is safer to not allow a remote system to mess with your screen, and (2)
not all terminals use the same escape sequences.

..wayne..