> one approach (though probably not a clever one, not really thought this out yet) > could be to use base64 encoding on 8bit character streams. That would fit nicely > in "traditional" and current RFC interop. BUT with bass64, we have even lengthier
Why not use Unicode UCS-2 with UTF-8 encoding? http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2279.txt UTF-8 encoding would be backwards-compatible with ASCII in many (most?) cases for syslog. Eric Fitzgerald Program Manager, Windows Auditing Microsoft Corporation
