RFC 8160 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2017
SUN · 14 JUN 2026
IUTF8 Terminal Mode in Secure Shell
Overview
RFC 8160, “IUTF8 Terminal Mode in Secure Shell”, is a Proposed Standard document published in April 2017 by S. Tatham, D. Tucker. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
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.
What “Proposed Standard” means
An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.
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