Re: Updating syslog(3), syslogd(8) to support RFC-5424

[haad <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Marc Balmer <mbalmer%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:
> Our syslog(3) functions and syslogd(8) daemon currently support
> RFC-3164, the BSD syslog protocol.  This basically means that logged
> messages are 7-bit ASCII strings (with some exceptions).
>
> Since NetBSD has nice locale support applications using Unicode are not
> that uncommon. It looks a bit arcane that syslog is limited to ASCII
> (though there might be valid reasons to only using ASCII in syslog, but
> I am not aware of them).
>
> RFC-5424 superceedes and obsoletes RFC-3164 and uses UTF-8 for messages,
> it should be backwards compatible since the lower 127 characters of
> UTF-8 are ASCII.
>
> Did someone already looking into updating syslog to RFC-5424 or has this
> been discussed before?  Since I use Unicode and UTF-8 a lot, I'd love if
> NetBSD supported it in syslog and might even spend some time on this.

AFAIK our syslog was one of first implementations of RFC-5424 it was
written and imported to base after some GSOC.



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Regards.

Adam