[Bug 1719758] Re: telnet send IAC ABORT in some Tranditional Chinese UTF-8 character

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** Changed in: netkit-telnet (Debian)
       Status: Unknown => Confirmed

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Title:
  telnet send IAC ABORT in some Tranditional Chinese UTF-8 character

Status in netkit-telnet package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in netkit-telnet package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When I telnet to some MUD server and chat,
  > say 本
  telnet client send 'IAC ABORT's, and MUD server get the wrong input.

  
  1. what telnet send :
  telnet> toggle
  Need an argument to 'toggle' command.  'toggle ?' for help.
  telnet> toggle options
  Will show option processing.
  say 本               
  SENT IAC ABORT
  SENT DO TIMING MARK

  
  2. What MUD server received (from strace)
  readv(8, [{"say \346\377\356\377\375\6", 10}], 1) = 10
  epoll_ctl(3, EPOLL_CTL_MOD, 8, {EPOLLIN|EPOLLOUT, {u32=8, u64=8}}) = 0
  writev(8, [{"\377\373\6", 3}], 1)       = 3


  '本' is 0xe6,0xac,0x9c
  but the MUD server got :
  0xe6, 0xff, 0xee, 0xff, 0xfd, 0x06

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