On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Rainer Gerhards wrote: >> my thought is that just like we have a filter to change control >> characters >> to escape sequences, it would be good to have a filter to escape non- >> ascii >> characters. this will mangle other character sets, but they are unlikly >> to >> go through cleanly anyway. > > Just to be on the right path, you suggest escaping charactes with hex values >> 7f?
correct. they can cause as much grief (or more) than control characters. since control characters get escaped by default, rsyslog will already mangle UTF8 text sent to it if the final byte is in that range. David Lang _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
