On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:15:01PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 	which is unacceptable for us outside of iso-8859-1 region...

Yes, I understand that - see below.

> 	when i (euc-jp) finger someone (iso-8859-1) what kind of output i
> 	would expect?

Basically like vi displays iso-8859-1 files when the "C" locale is in effect:

Liebe Gr\xfc\xdfe!
~
(which should read: Liebe Grüße!)

So no harm should happen, but of course, since the protocol extension is 
missing, you won't get all the information through.

>       we really need a protocol extension.

Yes, I agree!

Martin