Re: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost>]

> Recent versions of the Linux kernel support an IUTF8 flag [...].

> I would like to allow this mode to be preserved by SSH, but there is
> no assignment for it at present.

> Could this line be added to the appropriate place in
> draft-ietf-secsh-connect and draft-ietf-secsh-assignednumbers to
> create this assignment?

It's probably too late to do this before they make it to RFC status.

> 42 seems like a reasonable place for it.

>           42    IUTF8       Assume input characters are UTF-8 encoded.

Actually, if you're going to be adding such things, how about adding
bits for ECHOPRT, ALTWERASE, NOKERNINFO, and character size (CS5..CS8)?
In my own implementation, I created a private channel request to carry
those bits....

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