Package: telnetd
Version: 0.17-32
Severity: important
My own computer has LANG set to a UTF-8 value. I have a little server on my
home network which runs Sarge, also set for UTF-8.
I run telnetd on the little server (because it is *little* I do not want to
install reportbug + python on it, so I report this from my main machine).
The problem occurs when I telnet to the server and type something in
Japanese (either in an editor like vim or joe, or just at the bash prompt).
Specifically, it occurs when I type the word 東京 (Tokyo). More
specifically, it happens when I enter the first character of this word, 東.
The three bytes which constitute this UTF-8 character are e6-9d-b1. Other
characters (like the second character in 東京) do not seem to cause problems
(but I did not check them all, there are quite a lot of them).
The symptom is that the program I am using stops working, and the text
telnet>
is displayed. I now really seem to be in the raw telnet shell; for instance,
if I type "help" a summary of the telnet commands (close, logout, etc.) is
displayed (and if I type "quit" the telnet connection is indeed closed). The
original program I was in (an editor or the bash shell) seems to have
disappeared. Often (not always) it comes back after entering a few returns.
But I still cannot enter "Tokyo". So I marked this bug important ("a bug
which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it
completely unusable to everyone"). telnetd is certainly not unusable, but it
is if you want to send the UTF-8 character E6-9B-D1.
Regards, Jan
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.1
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages telnetd depends on:
ii adduser 3.77 Add and remove users and groups
ii base-files 3.1.9 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii dpkg 1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb
ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii netbase 4.23 Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii passwd 1:4.0.13-5 change and administer password and
telnetd recommends no packages.
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