Re: UTF8

[Derek Fawcus <dfawcus%cisco.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:39:23PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 
> Perhaps it would be useful to consider what problems you would have
> interacting with EBCDIC systems, to imagine what the situation is for
> Latin-1 or Unicode users.  ASCII isn't the only 7-bit encoding.

That is part of the point.  My local machine is using UTF-8,  the Unix
machines I ssh into are in 8859-1,  and I do use a couple of 8 bit
characters.  However simply not in my username or password.  Hence the
local unicode characters (when UTF-8 encoded) are valid ASCII,  and
hence I can log in.  Once logged in,  I can use those 8859-1 characters
(i.e. The pounds sterling symbol).

You point wrt EBCDIC is valid,  but I don't now the appropriate answer.
Also,  do their authentication systems work with a charset,  or octets?

DF