In hanse-ml.netbsd.bugs you write:
>Did you try using the "-8" option to rlogin?

Irrelevant.

It is *wrong* for any program to change the *hardware* characteristics
of the tty I'm logged in to (except in special cases and only at *my*
request).

Emacs suffers from this too, albeit in the opposite direction.
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