Bug 2450 - paint visual host key with unicode box-drawing characters
Summary: paint visual host key with unicode box-drawing characters
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: ssh (show other bugs)
Version: 7.0p1
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement
Assignee: Assigned to nobody
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Reported: 2015-08-21 20:39 AEST by Christian Hesse
Modified: 2015-09-08 00:30 AEST (History)
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paint visual host key with unicode box-drawing characters (7.06 KB, patch)
2015-08-21 20:39 AEST, Christian Hesse 		no flags Details | Diff
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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.