Bug 2450

Summary: paint visual host key with unicode box-drawing characters
Product: Portable OpenSSH Reporter: Christian Hesse <mail>
Component: sshAssignee: Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: djm
Priority: P5    
Version: 7.0p1   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Christian Hesse 2015-08-21 20:39:27 AEST
Created attachment 2688 [details]
paint visual host key with unicode box-drawing characters

Paint visual host key with unicode box-drawing characters.

This is completly optional and should not break anything if the system does not support it.
Comment 1 Damien Miller 2015-09-04 14:03:13 AEST
I'm not sure we want the extra complexity needed to do this; ASCII art is simple and works everywhere.

That being said, we definitely don't want to do it via iconv - that's overkill.
Comment 2 Christian Hesse 2015-09-08 00:30:21 AEST
Feel free to close with WONTFIX.

Initially this was just a proof of concept and I learned a lot. But this brings no real benefit but complexity.
Even if not used this requires strings (pointer to char) instead of plain characters to handle the multi byte characters.

At least it is archived here for everybody interested in this.