[patch] scp + UTF-8

[Darren Tucker]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Ingo Schwarze <schwarze at usta.de> wrote:
>> $ grep -i mblen openbsd-compat/*.h
>> openbsd-compat/openbsd-compat.h:#ifndef HAVE_MBLEN
>> openbsd-compat/openbsd-compat.h:# define mblen(x, y)  (1)
>
> Uh oh.  I'm not quite sure what consequences that might entail in
> libedit for sftp(1), which does use setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")?
> Did you audit those consequences?

Audit?  No.  I spent a lot of time reading man pages but it's not
something I've dealt with before so I don't understand it very well.
That said, the behaviour on systems without mblen should be the same
as what it was before my change so it should be no worse.

The history is at https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1990

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