Bug#396295: openssh-server: scp copies filenames with extended characters in the wrong character set, or sshd does not know about local locale for filenames

[Wouter Van Hemel <debian@publica.duodecim.org>]

Package: openssh-server
Version: 1:4.3p2-5.1
Severity: minor

If you copy files from one system to another with scp, the filenames don't 
always end up in the expected character set. For instance, when files are 
copied from a iso-8859-(1/15) locale machine to a machine with UTF-8 
locale, the filenames show up unreadable to local console and X programs.

The openssh server probably needs to be aware of the local locale; but 
that will probably not solve the case where one user's locale differs from 
the system locale, unless the character sets happen to be rather compatible.

Am I missing an easy way to make sure filesnames are stored with local 
locale settings (in non-interactive login sessions such as scp)?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages openssh-server depends on:
ii  adduser  3.99                            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf  1.5.7                           Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg     1.13.24                         package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6    2.3.6.ds1-7                     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.10.02+dfsg-2 common error description library
ii  libkrb53 1.4.4-3                         MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libpam-m 0.79-4                          Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-r 0.79-4                          Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g 0.79-4                          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselin 1.32-2                          SELinux shared libraries
ii  libssl0. 0.9.8c-3                        SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0 7.6.dbs-11                      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  openssh- 1:4.3p2-5.1                     Secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.3-13                      compression library - runtime

openssh-server recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  ssh/insecure_rshd:
  ssh/insecure_telnetd:
  ssh/new_config: true
* ssh/use_old_init_script: true
  ssh/encrypted_host_key_but_no_keygen:
  ssh/disable_cr_auth: false