tags 264024 fixed-upstream thanks On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:48:29PM -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > Package: ssh > Version: 1:3.8.1p1-8 > Severity: wishlist > > I recently started using the en_US.UTF-8 locale. I was surprised that when > I logged in from one Debian system with LANG=en_US.UTF-8, to another Debian > system that supports this locale, that the LANG variable was empty. This > causes a problem with remote applications, because they don't know the > encoding being used by the terminal. > > I would think this issue would come up often, but my web searches didn't > reveal much. The behavior I would expect is that locale environment > variables would be preserved, as long as the remote system supports that > locale. If not, a warning should perhaps be printed.
This feature has already been implemented upstream and will be in OpenSSH 3.9. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
