Re: message lang tags verse SSH_MSG_KEXINIT

[Frank Cusack <fcusack%fcusack.com@localhost>]

Another old message related to the keyboard-interactive draft.
(I believe the first occurence of a langauge tag was in that draft.)

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:49:47PM -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> [no attribution: ]
> > Are the drafts saying that I should send the language tag the client
> > and server agreed on at SSH_MSG_KEXINIT time as every message is
> > sent ?
> 
> one possible rationale has occurred to me:
> 
> Even if the peers negotiated that all messages will be in, say,
> martian, the server might not have translations for all possible
> messages, and might need to send some messages in a "default"
> language, in which case it should be tagged as such so it gets
> displayed appropriately (e.g., not using martian letters).

But isn't that impossible with UTF-8 encodings?  The client cannot display
the wrong letters (although it may not be able to display the letters
at all).  I am not that familiar with multi-byte encodings, but that
is my understanding.  Please clarify.

/fc