Call for testing: OpenSSH 7.8

Michael aixtools at felt.demon.nl
Tue Aug 21 17:57:31 AEST 2018


On 20/08/2018 21:39, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Michael wrote on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 08:32:03PM +0200:
>
> Seems quite unusual indeed and hard to understand - but AIX is free
> to call their locales however they want.  Neither locale names nor
> the return value from nl_langinfo(CODESET) are standardized.
> According to POSIX, they need contain elements relating to languages,
> territories, encodings, or even filenames, and the return value
> from nl_langinfo(CODESET) need not match the LC_CTYPE variable.
> AIX would be free to ask their users to specify "apples" or "oranges"
> in LC_CTYPE and yet report back "bananas" from nl_langinfo(CODESET).
> ;-)
All meant to by FYI - as AIX peeps as myself are often silent.
Many thanks for the responses and the patches!

Michael
>
> Yours,
>   Ingo



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