Re: Bug#61792: marked as done (telnet: Can't type non-ascii chars.)

[md@linux.it (Marco d'Itri)]

On Apr 08, Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> wrote:

 > When I comment something in Debian, I'm not looking for a solution for
 >myself, I know -8, I can create a telnet wrapper if I like. But that's not
 >the point. The point is that applications should support more than US ASCII
 >by default, without having to remember the switch to tell each application
 >to behave properly.
The real point is that telnet has historically not been 8 bit clean and
it's stupid to create an incompatibility just because you are too lazy
to add an alias or use ssh.

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ciao,
Marco