Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: openssh-client
This is for up-to-date Ubuntu Hardy.
I left some files for copying today using scp (from the openssh-client
package). I happened to look at the output and noticed some “bad character”
symbols on the terminal, as pasted below. (These were copy-pasted from the
console, in a completely UTF8-based environment. Note that the weird characters
may confuse your browser, make sure it's detected the correct encoding.)
21 Lied pentru voce și pian „Regen”.flac 100% 9938KB 1.9MB/s 00:05
03 Lieduri pentru tenor și pian, op. 15 „S 100% 2524KB 2.5MB/s 00:01
18 Lied pentru voce și pian „Frauenberuf�� 100% 11MB 1.3MB/s 00:09
06 Lieduri pentru tenor și pian, op. 15 „S 100% 8961KB 2.2MB/s 00:04
09 Lieduri pentru bas și pian, op. 4 „Troi 100% 11MB 1.4MB/s 00:08
[after resizing the window]
10 Suita nr. 3 pentru orchestră, op. 27 „Săteasca”_ „Pârâu sub lun� 100% 13MB
2.6MB/s 00:05
As it happens, the next character on each filename of the two weird
lines was, respectively, ” and ă, both of which are of course displayed
correctly in other places on the same output. Based on this and the
misalignment of the last columns, I think scp cuts too-long-names by
counting bytes rather than characters. This is obviously wrong in UTF8,
since some characters can contain several bytes, in which case the lines
would be cut too early, and occasionally in the “middle” of a character,
thus displaying garbage.
** Affects: openssh (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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scp cuts UTF8 filenames by bytes instead of characters
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/218741
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