David, I have now added the functionality to escape 8-bit characters. Patch is here:
http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=commitdiff;h=85045270f69e4dcb25c409c9 661e96e3172d7f30 I hope it is useful. I plan to release a new v5 devel soon, probably tomorrow or friday. Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 11:07 AM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] PostgreSQL: Problems with character encoding > > 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 _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
