Andrew, > >Hi Rainer, > > > >Why don't we look at it from the other direction? We could > state that any > >encoding is acceptable - for ease-of-use/migration with > existing syslog > >implementations. It is RECOMMENDED that UTF-8 be used. When it is > >used, an SD-ID element will be REQUIRED. e.g. - > [enc="utf-8" lang="en"] > > I like that idea too. > > So, if no SD-ID encoding element is specified, then we must > assume US-ASCII > and deal with it accordingly??
I think not. If it is not present, we known that we do not know it. If it is US-ASCII, I would expect something like [enc="us-ascii" lang="en"] Of course, we could also say if it is non-present, we can assume US-ASCII. But then we would need to introduce [enc="unknown"] for the (common) case where we simply do not know it (again: think POSIX). I find this somehwat confusing. Rainer _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog
