from openssh-5.1 on, banner messages have been constrained to plain text ascii. Damian Miller of mindrot.org wrote a patch to permit standard utf-8 messages using unicode 6.2 assigned code points. reference message: http://www.mail-archive.com/openssh-bugs@mindrot.org/msg04065.html Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: ssh target.server.com Actual Results: <banner presented with non-ascii displayed as octal> Expected Results: <banner presented with non-ascii displayed as as intended utf-8 codepoints> this permits non-english languages to be displayed correctly
Created attachment 362834 [details, diff] patch to correctly display utf-8 banners in ssh client
Sorry, but we carry too many external patches in openssh already and don't want to handle more. Use epatch_user or convince upstream to accept the patch.
