Re: Bug#61792: marked as done (telnet: Can't type non-ascii chars.)
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:58:27PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
>
> So, slink version of telnet has 8-bit support, but not through -8 option?
> And that 8-bit support is a broken hack, while the support through option
> -8 is valid?
Basically the hack is to send 8-bit chars without negotiating with the server.
This breaks the RFC. Specifying -8 will try to negotiate, but obviously
fails in some well known cases.
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