RE: [Syslog-sec] Syslog protocol - UTF-8 encoding

["David B Harrington" <ietfdbh@comcast.net>]

Hi,

According to STD63, UTF-8 has the characteristic of preserving the
full US-ASCII range.

David Harrington
dbharrington@comcast.net


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> [mailto:syslog-sec-bounces@www.employees.org] On Behalf Of 
> Alexander Clemm (alex)
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8:56 PM
> To: Rainer Gerhards
> Cc: syslog-sec@employees.org
> Subject: [Syslog-sec] Syslog protocol - UTF-8 encoding
> 
>  
> Hi,
> 
> 2 questions/ suggestions concerning the UTF-8 encoding in the syslog
> protocol:
> 
> 1) Is the " " (white space) after the header to be encoded in ASCII
or
> UTF-8?  The spec seems currently open to that respect 
> (although it would
> seem logical for it to be still in ASCII); should be clarified.  
> 
> 2)   Concerning the UTF-8 encoding, depending on where you send
syslog
> messages there are many scenarios in which it would be beneficial to
> have an option in which NOT to use UTF-8 encoding but to also 
> allow for
> other encodings, in particular plain ASCII.  Such an option would
also
> allow for quicker adaptation of this specification, as it is eases
the
> migration.  To provide for that, it seems it would make sense to
allow
> for a flag in the header part of the message - at the tail 
> end (that is
> known to be still ASCII encoded), right before the structured 
> data, that
> indicates which encoding is used - that is, whether UTF-8 is 
> in effect,
> or if another encoding is used - ex. ASCII, or even proprietary.   
> 
> (Apologies in case this aspect was discussed in the past and I am
> beating on a dead horse; but this appears important enough to 
> bring up.)
> 
> 
> --- Alex
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