Bug#264024: propagate locale across ssh logins

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

tags 264024 fixed-upstream
thanks

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:48:29PM -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> Package: ssh
> Version: 1:3.8.1p1-8
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I recently started using the en_US.UTF-8 locale.  I was surprised that when
> I logged in from one Debian system with LANG=en_US.UTF-8, to another Debian
> system that supports this locale, that the LANG variable was empty.  This
> causes a problem with remote applications, because they don't know the
> encoding being used by the terminal.
> 
> I would think this issue would come up often, but my web searches didn't
> reveal much.  The behavior I would expect is that locale environment
> variables would be preserved, as long as the remote system supports that
> locale.  If not, a warning should perhaps be printed.

This feature has already been implemented upstream and will be in
OpenSSH 3.9.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]