David,
I think this thread got a little out-of-sync. I think there is no doubt
about the fact that syslog must support all international languages, so
that any local information can be conveyed. This was one of the major
driving factors behind syslog-protocol. What I have been discussing with
Tom here is wheter or not the *tag* (SD-IDs) need to have full
international support. The SD-Ids are identifying information, you might
think of them like extended header-fields or - maybe a better example -
like XML tags. They identify the information that is provided in a given
element.
The full reasoning is given in
http://www.mail-archive.com/syslog%40lists.ietf.org/msg00013.html
Rainer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David B Harrington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 9:28 PM
> To: 'Tom Petch'; Rainer Gerhards; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Syslog] Unicode - was: AD Review
> fordraft-ietf-syslog-protocol-14
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> > see note above. Do you recommend we should actually make
> > English an requirement?
>
> I think that would be a mistake.
>
> For a vendor, e.g. a Chinese vendor, who produces switches that are
> sold only to the Chinese market, whose customers speak primarily
> Chinese and have limited English skills, forcing implementers to hire
> translators to translate their syslog messages into English and
> USASCII, and forcing their customers to hire translators to translate
> the syslog messages back into Chinese so they can understand them is
> simply stupid.
>
> We should make the character set UTF-8, not USASCII, so the whole
> world can send messages in the language that best suits their
> customers' environments. For many of those environments, English will
> be the language of choice because it is widely used in the IT world.
> But we should not force vendors to implement in languages that are
> inapprorpriate for their audiences.
>
> If we want to force standardization, let's focus on the message
> content rather than standardizing the language the proprietary content
> is expressed in.
>
> David Harrington
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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