[Bug 1632] [PATCH] UTF-8 hint sftp-server extension

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1632

--- Comment #14 from Marton Balint <cus at fazekas.hu> 2010-01-09 11:27:13 EST ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> The filename-charset extension just tells the client the character
> encoding used on the filesystem. We don't need to perform any character
> conversion on the server.

Great! You're right, it's better not to restrict the charset hint to
UTF-8.

> Anyway, just to be sure that no client gets confused by the slighly
> different semantics (as v6 requires the client to ask for deactivation
> of the local-encoding-to-utf8 conversion) we can name the extension as
> "filename-charset at openssh.com".

I agree.

> I have just attached a patch that adds support for a new flag allowing
> to set the encoding on the server. In example:
> 
>   sftp-server -s UTF-8
> 
> will cause clients to get the pair
> 
>   "filename-charset at openssh.com", "UTF-8"
> 
> in the SSH_FXP_VERSION packet.

Perfect, thanks for the extended patch, charset detection also seems
quite useful. Damien, what do you think?

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