[Bug 1635] It is useful to transfer locale-related environment variables acros the conection

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Sat Aug 29 03:15:46 EST 2009


https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1635


Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX


--- Comment #4 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> 2009-08-29 03:15:45 EST ---
Not all platforms support these environment variables, some may not be
entirely safe to pass. Worse, as far as I know, there is no
standardisation in locale names between operating systems.

The SSH protocol doesn't really have a locale negotiation mechanism (it
does have a "language" negotiation, but it is unclear how that should
be interpreted). If you want to add locale-passing to SSH, I think it
would be best to take it up on the IETF secsh working group mailing
list, but naively passing environment variables is not sufficient.

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