Subject: Re: finger
To: Kimmo Suominen <kim@tac.nyc.ny.us>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: source-changes
Date: 08/11/2002 11:18:16
> hmm. do you know there's another issue in finger/lprint.c:vputc()?
> it strips off 8th bit from .plan, pass it to vis(3) before printing.
> (so iso-8859-1 chars will become M-A and such)
and i have objection to change this to be 8bit-thru, see RFC1288 2.2.
("should truly be international data" portion is ambiguous so i assume
it unsafe to transmit 8bit chars through)
itojun