Re: finger

[Kimmo Suominen <kim%tac.nyc.ny.us@localhost>]

What is the danger you see in allowing the 8-bit data?  If it is
a printable character for the user running finger, I see no danger.

Please answer that question, so I can understand better.

+ Kim


| From:    itojun%iijlab.net@localhost
| Date:    Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:18:16 +0900
|
| >     hmm.  do you know there's another issue in finger/lprint.c:vputc()?
| >     it strips off 8th bit from .plan, pass it to vis(3) before printing.
| >     (so iso-8859-1 chars will become M-A and such)
|
|       and i have objection to change this to be 8bit-thru, see RFC1288 2.2.
|       ("should truly be international data" portion is ambiguous so i assume
|       it unsafe to transmit 8bit chars through)
|
| itojun
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