On the SELinux mailing list, openssh 3.9 changelog was quoted:

  • Implemented the ability to pass selected environment variables between the client and the server. See “AcceptEnv” in sshd_config(5) and “SendEnv” in ssh_config(5) for details

This has potential: it could finally solve the charset issues that annoy me (i blogged about that earlier).

Unfortunately you can’t just forward LC_ALL blindly. But i can deal with that in my login scripts. I just need a way to get the charset information from the client to the server.