Roger Leigh wrote:
> When a program using a UTF-8 locale logs a UTF-8 string using syslog(3),
> syslog mangles the string.  For example:
> 
> Jun 23 21:34:24 hardknott schroot[10687]: [sid chroot] 
> rleigh\uffff\206\222rleigh Running login shell: /bin/bash
> 
> [sid chroot] rleigh???rleigh Running login shell: /bin/bash
> 
> I did expect the string to be passed through unscathed.  This has also
> been reported (with a patch) here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89292
> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-335.html

This is due to

http://cvs.infodrom.org/sysklogd/syslogd.c.diff?r1=1.28;r2=1.29

Regards,

        Joey

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