Ok, I put in code to only enable 8-bit display for ISO8859-* codesets.
Are there other single-byte 8-bit codesets?

In my testing I was not able to make the output differ from the old
code in the C and ja_JP.eucJP locales.

Regards,
+ Kim


| From:    joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson)
| Date:    09 Sep 2002 16:30:57 +0200
|
| itojun@iijlab.net writes:
|
| > my point is, to make this situation better, we really need a
| > protocol negotiation (or inform) between fingerd and finger about
| > the charset used in the message.
|
| But that's not likely to happen anytime soon (or ever).
|
| > ad-hoc solution that passes 8bit through does not really help.
|
| It will help the few billion people who use single byte locales, and
| it will not break anything for those who doesn't. If your finger
| blindly outputs whatever it gets from fingerd, then that's another
| problem.
|
| /Johan
|