Re: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:13:32PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> > Given that the SSH protocol doesn't assign any semantics to these
> > terminal modes -- they are just tokens passed from one side to the
> > other -- it's a shame that they don't have extensibility and
> > private-use facilities, unlike most of the rest of the protocol.
> 
> Sure they do.  Just not in the way you're thinking of.  You can always
> do it the way I did - use a private CHANNEL_REQUEST to carry other
> stuff.  Not interoperable between different independent versions, but
> that's true of pretty much any private-use extensibility mechanism.

Yes, but putting a pseudo-terminal into UTF-8 mode (including, perhaps,
specifying a normalization form) is something that strikes me as fairly
generic and which the IETF would care about.