Re: UTF-8 tty mode

[Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>]

towo@computer.org wrote:

> I have already wondered why Linux telnet is still far behind the time (it
> has to be used in many environments) - it's not 8-bit-clean by default, you
> have to tell it "-8" and then it stupidly also switches off some reasonable
> CR-LF logic so that you may have to terminate login and password with ^J
> instead of RETURN and screen output doesn't wrap...  Will this eventually be
> fixed by someone?
> 
I don't mean this as a plug, but if you use C-Kermit:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck70.html

as your Telnet client, you can make it do anything you want, and if you have
trouble with it, you can send email to:

  kermit-support@columbia.edu

and usually get an answer within hours, if not minutes.

C-Kermit, like Telnet, defaults to 7-bit connections because even today there
is such a thing as "parity" (even on Telnet connections!) and if we don't
strip the parity bit by default, users who never heard of parity are going to
see screensful of garbage and not know what to do (and will think the client
is broken).

Like telnet, you can give C-Kermit a "-8" command-line argument for 8-bit
cleanliness.  Unlike telnet, C-Kermit has a startup file, where you can put 
the "eightbit" command so it it will always come up 8-bit clean.  The 8-bit
clean option does not affect the NVT state of the Telnet protocol machine.
so you don't have to type ^J to log in.  Nor, for that matter, do we confuse
8-bit clean with Telnet Binary mode.

- Frank
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