RFC 8160: IUTF8 Terminal Mode in Secure Shell (SSH)
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document specifies a new opcode in the Secure Shell terminal modes encoding. The new opcode describes the widely used IUTF8 terminal mode bit, which indicates that terminal I/O uses UTF-8 character encoding.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC8160
- Published
- April 2017
- Authors
- S. Tatham; D. Tucker
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 4
- Also known as
- —
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