>> 	imagine i (using euc-jp) finger you (using iso-8859-1) and see
>> 	garbled output.
>Which is no worse than what we have now. What is your point exactly?

	my point is, to make this situation better, we really need a protocol
	negotiation (or inform) between fingerd and finger about the charset
	used in the message.  ad-hoc solution that passes 8bit through does not
	really help.

itojun