Subject: Re: bug#75746: 31.0.50; Can't get password promote from plink 0.82

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:24:54 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:53:15 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> Hi Eli,
> 
> > Does the user name or password include non-ASCII characters?
> 
> No, at least not in my own test. I've used albinus@gandalf as tartget,
> which sounds kind of magic, but is just ASCII.
> 
> No password entered, because the password prompt didn't appear.
> 
> > Does Tramp assume something about the encoding of stuff sent to plink
> > and received from plink?
> 
> Not that I'm aware of.

Then maybe plink now expects UTF-16 encoding of text sent to it?

Or maybe we should talk to the PuTTY developer and ask him to give us
ideas about what could be wrong and how to solve it?