Re: IUTF8 pseudo-terminal mode

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent%vinc17.org@localhost>]

On 2008-05-11 21:00:55 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 02:00:56AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > default one at the system level. Perhaps you mean that the SSH client
> > should propagate the locale (more precisely, the charmap) to the
> 
> SunSSH 1.1 does (by having the client set per-channel LANG/LC_*
> environment variables).

I meant in a way that always works in practice.

> It's less than perfect: the client has no idea what a client-side
> locale maps to on the server side.

Yes, that's the problem: it's not always possible to rebuild a correct
LC_CTYPE on the remote side, e.g. if LC_CTYPE is "en_US", one doesn't
have information about the charset on the remote side.

> Also, it's not just character sets that matter, but language for
> localization of messages, date formats, etc...

Well, localization of messages and date formats are just a user choice.
If they are different on the remote side, this isn't really a problem.
Concerning the character set, the remote one must be compatible with
the local one, at least when a terminal is used (ditto for the IUTF8
pseudo-terminal mode). Otherwise the user can't view or edit non-ASCII
characters correctly.

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